"And now I want to thank you with my whole heart for your grand and
brave rejoinder to Butler and Mason. It was the best, bravest thing
done in the Senate this many a year. I think more hearts in the
Free States will glory in your courageous and overwhelming reply to
these plantation Senators than in any public effort of your life.
You must have made it, too, on short notice. I never read anything
with more satisfaction."
Other letters attest a change in sentiment among those who had been
lukewarm on Slavery, and perhaps adverse to Mr. Sumner.