Morning cloudy but cleared up beautifully by the Afternoon. I went to the Office. Found the people in a state of intense excitement at this intelligence about the bonds, and a public meeting having been called 245about it at Faneuil Hall, I went down to see how things went on. The hall was full to overflowing and I was much struck with the very excited and at the same time stern appearance of the multitude.1 It was clear that the present case was not one to be trifled with and that the Government by interposing vain obstacles was only drawing upon itself the gathering indignation.

Finding my own feelings to be coming very near to boiling point I thought it useless to stay and hear only broken sentences at the outer door, so I returned to the Office and cooled down. Mr. Everett came in soon afterwards and we had a talk. He still seems to hold much upon the Government. Mine are feeble hopes. The degree of infatuation which has possessed Kendall is astonishing and if not soon remedied will destroy him in the public estimation. Wrote a little but not with system.

Home. Afternoon to Quincy. Nothing material. Saw my father and went to superintend my House. Conversation with the former as to public affairs. He advises quiet. Home. Evening to Mr. Brooks’, family meeting. Conversation respecting some failures that took place today, and the Faneuil Hall meeting which ended more mildly than it began.

Morning clear and pleasant, but the day ended as usual in rain. We have now an abundant quantity of this Article. I went to the Office where I attempted to write something upon the currency question but did not succeed. Conversation with Mr. Everett in which I gave him the message from my father, begging him not to commit himself to the Government upon this question. The rumor was of a proclamation of the President calling Congress together upon the 1st of September and of a suspension of all action for nonpayment of bonds until that time. This wants confirmation but seems to produce a great effect in tranquilizing already. Mr. Walsh came in for a little while.

Home, but I am unable to read Homer. Mrs. Angier and T. K. Davis dined here and after dinner the latter accompanied me to the Norfolk House, to pay a visit to Mrs. A. H. Everett, who appears very comfortably settled there. After a pleasant visit we started to go to Quincy, but it setting in to rain, and having reached Neponset Bridge at a moment when the raising of the draw caused a detention, I concluded to return home. We got back shortly after seven. I called for my Wife at Edward Brooks’. Conversation upon things in general and home.