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Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Charles Francis Adams Sr. to Senator Charles Sumner, August 1, 1852

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The result at which you arrived is not in the least surprising to me. You are in your nature more trusting than I, and therefore expected mo...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Diary of George Templeton Strong, October 27, 1860

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Today’s special rumor is of a scheme of disunion, fathered by the Hon. Howell Cobb of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury, who is now favorin...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Diary of George Templeton Strong, November 7, 1860

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Lincoln elected. Hooray. Everybody seems glad of it. Even Democrats like Isaac Bell say there will be no disturbance, and that this will qui...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Diary of Edward Bates, June 16, 1859

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Wrote a long letter to S. Colfax 92 of Inda. shewing plainly my views of the slavery question and the Dred Scott decision— Sent him also co...

Diary of Edward Bates, Friday, June 24, 1859

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[Cold, rainy weather.] Barton I suppose will not go today — nor Coalter, who rides his (B[arton]'s) saddle horse, while B.[arton] drives...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Tuesday, June 19, 1860

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Very warm summer day-Breakfasted at Dr Browns with Mrs Brown alone, he being in the Country     The letter of Hon Edw Bates to me declaring ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Congressman Albert G. Brown’s Speech on the Homestead Bill, and in Vindication of the Policy of Providing Homes for the Homeless on the Public Lands, in the United States House of Representatives, April 28, 1852

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"Despise not these  Squatters ." The bill to encourage agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and all other branches of industry, ...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Diary of Lucy Larcom, September 5, 1861

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Why do I not love to be near the sea better than among the mountains? Here is my home, if birthplace makes home. But no, it is not my natura...

Diary of Lucy Larcom, October 5, 1861

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This first week of October, this month of months, shall not pass without some record of its beauty. Norton woods and Norton sunsets are the ...

Diary of Lucy Larcom, October 22, 1861

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I heard Charles Sumner on the Rebellion: my first sight and hearing of the great anti-slavery statesman. He was greeted with tremendous appl...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Congressman Horace Mann to E. W. Clapp, June 24, 1852

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WASHINGTON, June 24, 1852. MY DEAR SIR, — I left home on Saturday, stopped over Sunday in New York, and came on on Monday. At Philadelphia...

Congressman Horace Mann, June 24, 1852

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WASHINGTON, June 24, 1852. When the Whig Convention nominated Scott, they killed off those who had been most clamorous for slavery, and th...

Congressman Horace Mann, June 29, 1852

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WASHINGTON, June 29, 1852. Mr. Clay is dead: he expired between eleven and twelve o'clock this morning. . . . Probably no public man e...

Congressman Horace Mann to Mr. Combe, July 1, 1852

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WASHINGTON, July 1, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE, — . . . My friend Henry Barnard, Esq., who for many years was Secretary of the Board of Educa...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Senator Charles Sumner to John Jay, July 8, 1852

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I thank you for your watchful friendship. Had I imagined the impatience of friends, I would have anticipated their most sanguine desires. Bu...
Monday, May 4, 2026

Willis Hall to Henry Clay, June 1848

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NEW YORK, June, 1848. MY DEAR MR. CLAY, — I write to you in the fullness of my heart, not to condole with you, for though I feel all the p...