“All honor, then, to the man who _dares_ to risk his
reputation in representing the Emancipation sentiment
of the country! All honor to you, Sir, for taking the
leadership of the Emancipationists, who will sooner or
later be called upon to march to the ballot-box and there
fight Freedom’s battles!… For one, I am glad that you ‘have
dragged the eternal Slavery Question’ into politics again,
and I feel so glad that I had to write and tell you so.”