“Allow me, for the first time of ever addressing you,
to thank you for your masterly statement of the Trent
matter, which I have just risen from reading in the _Boston
Journal_.
“You have put the matter in its true light.…
“Your speech will shed light, and, in fact, illuminate the
whole subject, and should be read by every one. By taking
Mason & Co. we were acting on the English law; by giving
them up, we act under our own view of what the law should
be, and have brought England over to adopting our view.”