“Of all the subjects before you, no one was so well adapted
to the occasion as the ‘Barbarism of Slavery.’ And no man was
so well adapted to the subject as yourself. I was profoundly
grateful that you succeeded in pronouncing the speech,--and
still more so, when I read it. It is worthy of yourself. Thus
far my desires and prayers in regard to you have been fully
met. May your services to your country and mankind continue so
long as life continues!”
Hon. George W. Julian, another champion in Congress, wrote from his
home at Centreville, Indiana:--
“I am exceedingly rejoiced that you have made your great
speech, and said just what I understand you have said about
the whole question of Slavery. But I grow sick, indignant, and
nervous, on reading the cowardly notices of the speech by windy
Republican journals.”