Rawsonville, Nov. 23. My dear Brother John: If I have not been first to come forward to express my sympathy for you, in this your hour of ...

Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, Nov. 12. My Dear Cousin: I have just completed the attentive perusal of the account published in the New York ...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 1850. Yesterday I read Prof. Stuart's pamphlet in defence of Mr. Webster. It is a most extraordinary production. H...

Washington, Monday morning, June 3, 1850, six o'clock. MY DEAR SIR,—The "book," has arrived in parcels, the last coming to h...

Washington, March 17, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—I thank you for your letter, which contains thoughts and suggestions lying below the common surfa...

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

March 2, Evening. John Quincy (Co. G) came and asked me today if I would “send up North” for a pair of spectacles for him, “for common eye...

WEST POINT, April 12,1857 . MY DEAR SISTER: . . . In your last letter you asked if I sincerely believed in a God.  I can say yes.  I also be...

MR. EDITOR — I regret that the former account I was sent of your labors of our excellent brothers Thompson and Phelps, was so meager a stat...

Servants of this sort were expected to remain for life, or at least unto the year of general release, and their children were considered in...

Mr. Thompson rose, and delivered his valedictory, in accordance with the resolution which he offered, — in substance, giving thanks to God ...

Your next main argument is substantially this: — The Jewish nation held slaves, whose condition and treatment were regulated by laws given ...

[From the rapid and impassioned style of Mr. T’s delivery, it becomes difficult, indeed impossible to give a very close report of all he sa...

f you should still believe that the patriarchs did hold their fellow men as slaves, in the ordinary sense of the term, which we allow to be...

In the case of Abraham, the language used in scripture is decisive of the fact that “ he had servants bought with money of the stranger. ”...

The terms evedh, in the Old Testament, and doulos in the New, clearly synonymous, and we believe, invariably translated servant or bondman,...

Mr. Thompson addressed the meeting, and spoke at very considerable length, but we are only able to furnish a few of his remarks. He dif...