“I have looked over the newspaper reports, and have thanked God
your life was spared to prepare such a masterly production, so
full of facts, so happily arranged, so glowingly knit together,
and that you were able in strength to stand up in the Senate
and deliver it.
“To my mind, the speech will do much good; it was needed. The
great mass of the people have become, or are becoming, what is
now called conservative on the Slavery Question; they forget,
amid their business and their many calls, the horrors, the
crime, and the Barbarism of Slavery.”