“Con. You are mistaken.
“Rep. With these eyes I saw it;
Heard with these ears.
“Con. Say they did not applaud.
So must we dress it in the people’s eyes,
As he had been a rash, unwelcome guest,
Who came with little call, and spake with less.
The Boston Liberator spoke of it as “this dispassionate and statesmanlike speech”; but a correspondent complained of Mr. Sumner’s confidence in the Administration, saying:—
“No, we are not yet saved! And it is the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and the elected head of the nation, it is Abraham Lincoln himself, who obstructs, by the exercise of his individual will, the nation’s entrance upon that movement against Slavery which Mr. Sumner has shown to be the direct course, and the only course, to success against the Rebellion.”
By another of its correspondents the same paper said:—