WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,— . . . You have seen how Websterism overrides everything in Boston. A large portion of the voters...

WASHINGTON, July 9, 1850. It is a sad hour. News has just come from the White House that the President is dying. If he dies, it will be a ...

Bright, clear, and warm. A dispatch from Gen. Bragg. AUGUSTA, December 3d, 6 P. M.— A strong force of the enemy's cavalry and infant...

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

March  14. Mr. Webster has not a favorable response from any Northern man of any influence. It is hard to believe that a man who has been ...

The slaveholders are bent on securing the new territories for slavery, and they see in prospective an immense slave nation embracing the Gul...

BOSTON, Nov. 24. My Dear Brother John Brown: I am an old man. I have for more than thirty years opposed Slavery in all its forms; though n...

Ilion, New York, November 24. Dear Brother in Christ: How I would like to spend this night with you in your cell, and converse for a seaso...

EXETER, Nov. 20, 1846. TO REV. JAMES C. BOSWELL, President, and SAMUEL A. HALEY, ESQ., Secretary, &c. Gentlemen:—I have received you...

DEAR SIR, Mr. Thompson has been to see me. Of course I was obliged to tell him there might be circumstances in which I would vote for a slav...

FEB. 4, 1850. Gen. Taylor's Message is very good so far as it relates to California. He recommends that it be admitted as a State. But...

I have just read your admirable letter on Clay's resolutions [of compromise]. 1 You have done a good work. . . . There is a great advan...

New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 28. Dear Sir: Permit a friend of liberty and equitable law to address you a few brief thoughts, which I hope ...

Dear Brother: My father was a slaveholder, and when at school I commenced searching the Bible for sanction of the divine institution, but ha...

WASHINGTON, April 19, 1860 . . . I don't remember what I said in my postscript, which seems to have affected you so much, but in all y...

The Hon. Theodore G. Hunt, of La., who was one of the few Southern Representatives in Congress that voted against the repeal of the Missouri...

There is a most important difference between the state laws, or judicial statutes of the Hebrew nation, and the moral law as expressed in t...

Before leaving the subject of Jewish servitude, there are three considerations of chief importance on which we wish you may fix your candid...

[From the Lynn Record,] This distinguished young friend and disciple of Wilberforce, and justly celebrated orator, who has been repeate...

There is either a most strange delusion, or an obstinate wickedness in men, in relation to this matter of expatriating our colored people —...