“You have done a great work in the Senate during the last
session. I admire your consistency. Every utterance has
been instinct with liberty and loyalty.… Thanking you again
for the speech, and for your other speeches, and thanking
God for the brilliancy of your entire Senatorial career.…”
Hon. Asaph Churchill, lawyer and fellow-student, expressed his
sympathy, and gave a reminiscence, in a letter from Boston.
“Allow me to congratulate you upon the grand success of our
country’s movement, and no less upon your own career, which
has been crowned with such splendid success, during the
past season, in the new, important, and delicate questions
which you have been called upon to speak and act upon.
Certainly your highest ambition ought to be satisfied with
that which insures to you your place in the immortality of
history; and you have had the most abundant opportunity for
accomplishing upon the grandest scale that aspiration which
I so well remember you gave utterance to at our Law School,
when, boy-like, we were all telling what we most ardently
sought to do or to be, that you ‘wished to do that which
would do the most good to mankind.’”