“Republicans self-styled Conservative do not like your
Worcester speech; and yet I meet with some such who admit
that the liberation of the slaves of the Rebels must yet
be a war policy,--only that the time has not come for its
adoption. Well, some must be pioneers, and others will
follow at a carefully considered distance: editors and
office-seekers will be farthest in the rear. I was not
so much surprised at the dissent in yesterday’s _Boston
Journal_ as at the character of the assault on your speech
and on you.”
Hollis Loring, a good Republican, wrote from Marlborough,
Massachusetts:--
“Some of our public journals seem disposed to criticize
your speech at Worcester on Tuesday, as not reflecting
the sentiments of your State. For one, I will say that I
listened to your speech with much pleasure. I believe you
take the only correct view of the subject; and I know you
reflect the sentiment of a large majority of the people in
this town. Even some of the most Proslavery Democrats of
the past are fully up to your ground to-day.”
James Means, a teacher, always against Slavery, wrote from
Auburndale, Massachusetts:--
“I have read with great interest and pleasure your speech
at the late Convention in Worcester. And as it has called
forth unfriendly criticism, I cannot forbear to express to
you my cordial thanks for it.”
Dr. Luther B. Morse, a physician and Republican, wrote from
Lowell:--
“I thank you for those manly, true, and earnest words,
which it would be well for our country--Government and
people--to consider. They involve principles of political
economy of unequalled importance to our country, especially
in its present condition.”