MR. CHAIRMAN: I have been struck with one fact, that the best orators who have added their praise to his fame and I need not go out of this ...

Thanksgiving is over; I have been to Beverly and returned. I am glad they wanted me so much, for I should not have gone without; and in this...

This P. M., Miss O. and myself accompanied Rev. E. P. Smith to listen to his "colored preaching," as he termed it, in the same chu...

Spring has long delayed her coming here as well as northward. I could not be comfortable this P. M. in my room without a fire. Still, despit...

This has certainly been one of the most exciting days I have spent in the service. We crossed the river on a transport to the Louisana shore...

The Prince’s ball next week’s the chief topic of the town. The King of Naples has run away and Garibaldi triumphs. The House of Bourbon is o...

The talk today is that Fusionism may carry this state after all. Then the election goes into the House and would be long contested before a ...

With William Schermerhorn to Columbia College Board meeting at two o’clock. Unusual amount of business, mostly unimportant. Treasurer’s repo...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...

Today attended some of the closing exercises of the students of Washington University. Barton will leave us tomorrow morning. He has been ...

I THANK GOD for John Calvin. To be sure, he burned Servetus; but the Puritans, or at least, their immediate descendants, hung the witches; G...

Yesterday morning, Mr. F., a gentleman from my native State, Massachusetts, and who has charge of the Refugee Farm, asked if I would not lik...

Boston, August 5, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I came to this city yesterday, and found it and all the hotels so crowded with strangers, that I wish...

HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, Dec. 2, 1859. SIR: When one thinks of the United States of America, a majestic figure rises to the mind—Washington. Now,...

To day, Sarah Bates , by one single deed, set free all her remaining slaves — being 32 in number. The deed was proven in Court, by John. S. ...

AVERSE as I am to the continuance of a controversy with my colleagues on the subject of Mississippi politics, I am not the less constrained ...