Wendell Phillips wrote from Boston:—
“Though I have but half an hour at home, I cannot let it pass without thanking you for your gallant fight against Louisiana. Your tireless patience in carrying in detail one point after another of the enemy’s defences, all winter long, has not passed without our grateful admiration; the masterly strategy of the last week is the grand and fitting climax,—all the more grateful, because we had been told you felt the resistance so hopeless as to fear you must succumb to the dictation of the Cabinet. We have watched your white plume with fearful delight. Could we only hope this defeat would be final, our joy would be unmixed. At any rate, the effort will bear fruit thousand-fold.”
Hon. Francis W. Bird wrote from Boston:—
“Let me thank you most heartily for your gallant fight against Louisiana. I hope it will be powerful to the end. I can see it was against fearful odds, and all the more splendid.”
Dr. Estes Howe wrote from Cambridge:—
“I don’t trouble you much with letters, but I must thank and congratulate you most warmly on your splendid fight and great victory in the Bogus Louisiana struggle. Some weak-kneed Republicans who rejoice at the result did not know at first whether to rejoice or not, when they saw what tools you had to work with; but your true friends, who have their eyes open, are full of joy, and all the rest will fall into line as soon as the great truth becomes apparent to them.”
Hon. Edward L. Pierce wrote from Boston:—
“God bless you a thousand times for your indomitable resistance to the admission of Louisiana with her caste system! This afternoon some forty gentlemen dined at Bird’s room, and all, nemine dissentiente, approved it, and with full praise.”
Joel P. Bishop, the learned law-writer, and author of a much used work on Criminal Law, wrote from Boston:—