“I have re-read, with thorough satisfaction, your speech
on Confiscation and Emancipation in the pamphlet you
were good enough to send me. It is admirable in its
tone, arrangement, and completeness, and the arguments
and illustrations are overwhelming and unanswerable. The
necessity of Emancipation is fast forcing itself upon our
people by the stern logic of facts, but your speech will
remove any lingering doubts.”
Hon. Amos P. Granger, former Representative in Congress, and a
stern patriot, wrote from Syracuse, New York:--
“Your remarks of the 19th, as reported in the _Tribune_ day
before yesterday, are read in this vicinity with a great
deal of pleasure and approbation. They are replete with
prudence, skill, and wisdom. Such sentiments are rarely
heard in Washington. It would seem that they would be
decisive.”
Hon. William L. Marshall, an able Judge of Maryland, wrote
from Baltimore:--
“You have exhausted the subject, it seems to me, so far as
it involves legal questions. I have been greatly pleased
and much interested by your argument.”