WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...

BOSTON, May 13, 1852. MY DEAR MR. CRITTENDEN,—I received a welcome letter from you weeks ago, for which I have often thanked you in spirit...

More than ever do I feel the importance to our cause of preventing the Commonwealth from passing into the hands of Webster Whiggery. This, o...

Sept. 15. There has been a very sharp debate in the Senate, in which the Southern men have rode and overrode Mr. Winthrop, and hunted up all...

JULY 29, 1850. We have just heard that Mr. Winthrop has been appointed senator to fill the place made vacant by Mr. Webster. Under the cir...

Sunday morning, June, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—I truly lament that my arrangements for the week prevent my acceptance of your invitation for Tue...

WASHINGTON, March 30, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—I received your letter of the 19th inst., for which I am very much obliged to you. All that is do...

FEB. 7. Yesterday, Mr. Clay concluded his speech upon his Compromise resolutions. Its close was pathetic. There is hardly another slavehol...

You inquire about Eliot. 1 He is an honest and obstinate man, but essentially Hunker in grain. In other days and places he would have been ...

Washington 2 Dec r 1849 MY DEAR AND W , I had a very pleasant and safe journey on. The weather was fine throughout; but is now very bad. ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1850. Mr. A. has infinitely slender cause to praise Mr. Cobb for putting Mr. Giddings on the Committee on Territories,...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 1850. E. W. CLAP, Esq. DEAR SIR,—If you do not pity a poor fellow who is condemned to stay here and vote day after day...

You will see by the papers the doings at Washington. The contest on the Speakership is showing its good influence already. 1 The slave-powe...

[January 24, 1850.] DEAR HENRY, Whittier is here on a short visit. I go to-night with Miss Bremer to hear Wendell Phillips, and to-morrow ev...

In this moment of discomfiture I turn to you. I am sick at heart as I think of the treason of our public men. Freedom is forgotten in the mi...

The victory of Sheridan has a party-political influence. It is not gratifying to the opponents of the Administration. Some who want to rejoi...

Boston , Feb'y 6th, 1851. My Dear Mann : — The telegraph will tell you the result of to-morrow's fight before this reaches you....