Mrs. Lydia Maria Child wrote thus:—
“My chief motive in writing is to thank you for your magnificent speech, which met the requirements of the time with so much intellectual strength and moral heroism. Some ‘patriots’ called it ‘Un-American.’ It recalled to my mind the words of Aristophanes:—
“‘Sparta shall find
An honest chronicler, though Fear may try
The prize with Truth. Yes, I have fears, and those
In no small brood. I know the people well,
Their temper’s edge and humor. Does some tongue
Link cunning commendation with their own
And country’s name? Their joy o’erflows the measure;
It matters not the praise be wrong, nor that