J. P. Lesley, the eminent geologist, wrote from Philadelphia:-- “Why can’t the golden chance be clutched to say to the whole South, ‘Good!--you rebel,--you are no longer slaveholders, nor can you ever be again.’ How it would ring round the world, and transcendently through Heaven! One would think that Abraham Lincoln would be fired at the thought of the unrivalled fame that would succeed the act. Has he not thought of immortality? Or does he wait for Congress to take away the glory from him, or an accident to take away the opportunity?” Lyman S. Hapgood, paymaster in the army, and a good Republican, wrote from Washington:-- “I have just been reading your speech which was made to the Massachusetts Republicans, at their State Convention, on the first instant; and the policy therein so fully declared, which, in your opinion, it is the duty of the National Government to pursue, agrees so completely with my own views of our country’s difficulties, and her only way of permanent and successful escape, that I could not refrain from expressing to you my gratitude, as a citizen of the good old Commonwealth, that she has one son, at least, who, regardless of all personal misrepresentations from political enemies or professed friends, has the moral courage to stand up, upon all occasions and under all circumstances, and proclaim what he sincerely believes to be the true and just policy for the Government to adopt.” A. B. Johnson, of the Treasury Department, wrote from Washington:-- “I thank you from my heart for that noble speech at Worcester. That trumpet gave forth no uncertain sound. Hints have come up from the West, and intimations, vague, undetermined, from the East, before; but it has been left for you to define, announce, and defend a logical policy, and you have accomplished your task.” H. Catlin, editor of the _True American_, wrote from Erie, Pennsylvania:-- “How lamentable that we should make Human Slavery the one sacred thing under the heavens! Everything else must give way,--every other property may be confiscated, every other right suspended,--but _Slavery_ cannot be touched! Our Proslavery education is costing a great deal,--it threatens to cost us our country! Thanks that Senator Sumner so fully appreciates the real issue of the hour, and that, _though a Senator_, he proclaims it manfully and boldly! The masses of the people are with you.” A. T. Goodman wrote from Cleveland:--