“The late speech of the Senator on the Trent affair is
one of the ablest state papers that have appeared in this
country for years, and will have a powerful influence upon
the English mind in settling the present disturbed state of
feeling, and also in securing the practical acknowledgment
of a great principle in International Law. Those who have
found the most fault of late with Mr. Sumner for his
efforts to keep fresh before the country the cause of our
present disaster, as an important thing to be considered,
while struggling for relief, are now among the first
to do him honor for his unanswerable argument upon the
Trent Question, and the principle involved. In the end,
the country and the world will as fully agree with him,
practically, upon the question of Slavery. No man can more
truly be said to be the man for the hour than can Senator
Sumner.”