“I was not a little chagrined and mortified by ----’s notice of it, as I expressed to him in a note the moment I had read his leader respecting it. Brutality, no less than vice, is a monster, and whoever paints it fair, or wishes others to, by the false character he gives betrays his own true character. I have great faith in plain-spoken truth; and the railing and gnashing of teeth in anger by the Southern preservers of the Union, and what John Randolph denominated as the white slaves of the North, who second them, is a plain confession of the truth as you have spoken it.” Hon. Albert G. Browne, prominent in the politics of Massachusetts, and ever foe to Slavery, wrote from Boston:-- “No poor words of mine can convey to you my admiration and hearty approbation of your speech. I greatly err in judgment, if it is not by universal consent considered your best effort in this direction. To my mind it is exhaustive of the subject.” Daniel Henshaw, a venerable citizen, once a journalist and always a reformer, wrote from Boston:-- “I have read your speech on the Barbarism of Slavery attentively, having devoted seven hours thereto yesterday, and I cannot refrain from offering you my humble thanks, although words cannot express my feelings on the subject. You know something of my views on Slavery. For thirty years I have considered it the leading and most important subject before the nation.” Charles M. Ellis, the lawyer, and always against Slavery, wrote from Boston:-- “Especially allow me to thank you for the discourse of the Barbarism of Slavery; for it shows you _well_ again, and leading on the good fight. It is needed now, when men at the South seek to justify the thing,--needed, I think, more than anything,--and leaves little to be done in that direction.” Warren Sawyer, a merchant and active Republican, wrote from Boston:-- “I have looked over the newspaper reports, and have thanked God your life was spared to prepare such a masterly production, so full of facts, so happily arranged, so glowingly knit together, and that you were able in strength to stand up in the Senate and deliver it. “To my mind, the speech will do much good; it was needed. The great mass of the people have become, or are becoming, what is now called conservative on the Slavery Question; they forget, amid their business and their many calls, the horrors, the crime, and the Barbarism of Slavery.” C. J. Higginson, a merchant, wrote from Boston:--