The _Tribune_ also published a dramatic sketch between a Conservative and a Reporter, exposing the reports about the reception of the speech. Here are a few lines. “CONSERVATIVE. Men took his coming coldly, as they say. “REPORTER. My Lord, they lie who say so. On my life, The pillars shook with plaudits,--the wide hall Was as a sea of joyous countenance. “CON. You are mistaken. “REP. With these eyes I saw it; Heard with these ears. “CON. Say they did not applaud. So must we dress it in the people’s eyes, As he had been a rash, unwelcome guest, Who came with little call, and spake with less. The Boston _Liberator_ spoke of it as “this dispassionate and statesmanlike speech”; but a correspondent complained of Mr. Sumner’s confidence in the Administration, saying:-- “No, we are not yet saved! And it is the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and the elected head of the nation, it is Abraham Lincoln himself, who obstructs, by the exercise of his individual will, the nation’s entrance upon that movement against Slavery which Mr. Sumner has shown to be the direct course, and the only course, to success against the Rebellion.” By another of its correspondents the same paper said:-- “If I had a fortune, however large, I would exhaust the last cent in the way I have chosen, and in getting up petitions from the Free States, especially from Massachusetts, which should meet Congress at the very threshold of the session nearly upon us, and which should inspire Senator Sumner to submit his Plan of Emancipation to that body at once, and give foundation and impulse for an immediate and triumphant vote in his favor.” The _Boston Traveller_ announced the following:-- “Several thousand copies of Senator Sumner’s recent speech at Worcester, which disturbed the equanimity of some of our contemporaries, have been circulated in Kentucky. A Colonel of that State, now in the Union service, writes thus: ‘Sumner’s speech strikes the key-note for the Union cause in Kentucky, and his policy, if followed up by the Administration, will insure us a speedy triumph.’” The country press of Massachusetts espoused the speech warmly. The New Bedford _Evening Standard_, always ready against Slavery, declared its sympathy, while giving testimony to the reception of the speech by the Convention.