“I have just read your speech on the Trent affair, and
cannot refrain from expressing my thanks for its able and
conclusive vindication of the position of our Government on
that subject. If any reasoning can reconcile the American
mind to the restitution of the two emissaries to British
protection, your arguments and the calm and convincing
presentation of facts must do it. What you have said of
Hautefeuille might be justly applied to this statesmanlike
production, which, in comprehension and in logical
connection, is a state paper.”