“I am more gratified than I can express for your wise,
noble, patriotic speech at Worcester.”
Thomas Gaffield, an excellent business man and alderman, wrote
from Boston:--
“As you have had, and will have much more, opposition on
the part of some newspapers and some men, I have felt it my
duty, although only a humble constituent, to give my word
of comfort and good cheer, though I doubt not you foresaw
all which has followed, and find your comfort in the sense
of duty well and fearlessly done. I have no doubt that your
speech is prophetic, and of events and ideas not very far
in the future.”