Hon. George S. Hale, lawyer, wrote from Boston:—
“Permit me to congratulate you on your late speech in the Senate. I am not unfamiliar with your speeches, and feel great pleasure in saying that none has ever, in my opinion, so strengthened your position as a statesman; none has been more happy, more effective, or more generally satisfactory to your constituents.
“Without calling up any of those questions upon which many of them have differed from you, you have done much to contribute to public peace, and aided well, under peculiarly difficult circumstances, in placing the country in an honorable position before the world.”
Hon. Charles P. Huntington, late Judge of the Superior Court for Suffolk County, wrote:—
“I have read your speech on the Trent affair with more satisfaction than anything that has yet been uttered on the subject, and as placing the merits of the question on the most satisfactory and statesmanlike ground.”
Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, the excellent President of Yale College, and author of a work on International Law, wrote from New Haven:—
“Having just read with great pleasure your speech on the Trent case, as given in the Tribune of yesterday, I feel moved to express to you my satisfaction that you have given the affair such a shape, and have tacitly exposed some of Mr. Seward’s errors.”
Hon. John Jay, afterwards Minister at Vienna, wrote from New York:—
“Accept my congratulations on your very able speech on the Trent matter. It will rather surprise your friends in England.”
Hon. John M. Read, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, wrote from Philadelphia:—