On Sunday, the 13th of July, 1862, President Lincoln invited me to accompany him in his carriage to the funeral of an infant child of Mr. St...

Bright and beautiful. Rev. Mr. Dashiell called, after services. The prayer for the President was omitted, by a previous understanding. Rev...

ROME, December 24, 1839. What a stormy time you are having in America! Your cradle was rocked in the Revolution, and now in your old age y...

DELIVERED AT ELLWOOD SPRINGS, NEAR PORT GIBSON, MISS., NOVEMBER 2, 1850. FELLOW-CITIZENS: I shall speak to you to-day, not as Whigs, not a...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....

Kidnapped at Sea: TheCivil War Voyage of David Henry by Andrew Sillen There are things we know, things we don’t know and things we don’t...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1851. To E. W. CLAP,  Walpole ,  Mass . MY DEAR SIR, — . . . After a week of factious opposition, we have at last, thi...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1851. MY DEAR MR. COMBE, — . . . I have nothing to write on political subjects that can afford any gratification to a ...

Building A HouseDivided: Slavery, Westward Expansion and the Roots of the Civil War By Stephen G. Hyslop By the time Abraham Lincoln ass...

WASHINGTON, January 2, 1849. MY DEAR SON,—I received your letter of the 27th November, and I was happy to hear of the continued health of ...

Today was published in St Louis papers (copied from the New York Tribune) a recent letter of mine to the Whig Committee of New York, in answ...