“Blessings on you! You have done in this Louisiana matter an excellent work, for which some of your friends thank you less now than they will by-and-by.”
Hon. Charles W. Slack, an Antislavery journalist, wrote from Boston:—
“Thanks!—hearty, cordial, continued thanks!—for your brave and persistent opposition to Louisiana.
“There is a very much larger share of the community who will sustain you than at first thought may be supposed.
“The idea of negro suffrage in the disloyal States grows daily in favor and advocacy among business men.”
William S. Robinson, the journalist, known as “Warrington,” wrote:—
“I cannot sit down to my work this morning, albeit pressed for time, without giving you the homage of my sincere admiration and respect for killing Louisiana, at least pro tempore. Thanks! thanks! thanks!”
General William L. Burt, afterwards Postmaster of Boston, who had served in Louisiana during the Rebellion, wrote:—
“I congratulate you upon your defeat of the Louisiana Bill. Your action was not only justifiable, but commendable,—doubly so in view of the fact of your concession upon the Reconstruction Bill.… The complaints made by the Administration, or its friends, of the means you took to prevent the fraud upon you and the people, are a compliment, first, to your sagacity, and, secondly, to your skill and ability. You will be vindicated a hundred times before December.”
Colonel Albert J. Wright, having great influence in the local politics of Boston, wrote:—