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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

The policy of enlisting negroes renders it harder for prisoners. So does the emancipation proclamation. The government having enlisted negro...