LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...

NEAR PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29. My dear Husband: I have just received your letter to Mr. M., saying that you would like to have me stay here u...

[January 24, 1850.] DEAR HENRY, Whittier is here on a short visit. I go to-night with Miss Bremer to hear Wendell Phillips, and to-morrow ev...

Have been unable to write daily. The President has released A. H. Stephens, Regan, Trenholm, and others on parole, and less dissatisfaction ...

It is some weeks since I have had time to write a word in this diary. In the mean time many things have happened which I desired to note but...

John B. Gough lectured in Bemis Hall last night and was entertained by Governor Clark. I told Grandfather that I had an invitation to the le...

Rochester, Oct. 15, 1864. My Dear Mr. Tilton: I am obliged by your favor containing a copy of your recent speech in Latimer hall. I h...

[June 19, 1863.] Dear Stearns: Yours recd, and communicated to Sanborn. We congratulate you — your success seems full. I forward ...

Abolition Logic “ Not hate of one's neighbor.” We prove it to be hate, because it wants to send off. Hatred repels, and would expel...

Considerable as have been the pecuniary sacrifices of abolitionists in their cause, they fall far short of the merits of that precious caus...

Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have...

Peterboro , Nov. 23, 1846, Edmund Quincy , Esq., of Massachusetts: Dear Sir, — I have this evening, read your letter to me, in the la...