MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...

I cannot repress my delight in what I hear of Emerson's utterance at Concord. For an hour and a half he laid bare our evils and their au...

The martyrdom of John Brown was most worthily celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. The town which inaugurated the first American "Insu...

MASSACHUSETTS, November 29. Dear Friend: I have written to you once before, but fear it has never reached you; and now I try again, trusti...

You will read the proceedings at Washington. The bluster of the South is, I think, subsiding, though as usual the North is frightened, and p...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson Read In Music Hall, January 1, 1863 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the s...

February 7, 1863. Emerson and Thoreau are oftener in my mind, in connection with this camp life and these people, than any other writers I...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, February 9, 1863. Yesterday afternoon I put my new saddle and bridle on the long-legged horse, claimed by the Colonel a...

February 7, 1863. . . . Emerson and Thoreau are oftener in my mind, in connection with this camp life and these people, than any other wri...

 ST. HELENA ISLAND, February 9, 1863. Yesterday afternoon I put my new saddle and bridle on the long-legged horse, claimed by the Colonel ...