When we appealed to you, you furnished them most liberally, and to our surprise and the relief of our treasury you informed us you made no charge.
All were disposed to give your articles a careful perusal, and many instances came to my knowledge of the great positive good they effected in keeping men within the Union party when the first blow of secession had been struck.
Fred. Fickey, Jr.
May 15, 1862.
I have never read an abler or more conclusive paper than your war-power document in all my reading. * * *
Richard S. Coxe.[7]
Washington, May 22, 1862.
I most cheerfully indorse the papers respecting your publications under the authority of the War Department. Mr. Richard S. Coxe, I can say, is one of the ablest lawyers in this District or in the country. In his opinion of your writings I entirely concur as with other men who have expressed one. I regret that I am without the influence to serve you at the War Department, but Mr. Lincoln, with whom I have conversed, has, I know, the highest appreciation of your services in this connection. Judge Collamer, whom I regard as among the first of living statesmen and patriots, is enthusiastic in praise of your publications, and, indeed, I have heard but one opinion expressed by all the able men who have referred to them.