Happily, in benefiting ourselves we shall promote the interests of others.

It takes the dreadful question out of the region of party and expediency, and holds it up in the clear sun-blaze of truth and reason, in all its deformity, and with the blackness of the pit clinging about it.

In the light of that speech the civilized world will now see American Slavery as it is.

I cannot tell you how pleased I am with your late speech on the ‘Barbarism of Slavery.’ It makes a lustrum in the Senate, and an era in the history of the Antislavery cause.

Look out for them, and when they apologize to you with the pretension of drunkenness, understand them to mean they are drunk with rage.

If we want to demolish the Slave Power, we must educate the hearts of the people no less than their heads.

My heart swells with gratitude to God that you are again permitted to stand in the Senate and maintain the honor of a nation and of mankind.

Of all the subjects before you, no one was so well adapted to the occasion as the ‘Barbarism of Slavery.’ And no man was so well adapted to the subject as yourself.

I wrote you hastily my congratulations and thanks on your last powerful effort, the effect of which I think will be stupendous and permanent, giving a vigor to the cause, and a definiteness to the opinion of the North, and an example of…

It is far more instructive, and will be far more useful, and it is not at all inferior to the other in vigor or rhetoric.

The slaveholders will all read this speech, and will all be profited by its clear, certain, and convincing truths.

I am scattering through my county the great speech of your life: I mean your speech on the Barbarism of Slavery.

I finished the reading of your great speech in the car on my way hither, and, permit me to say, thank you for it with my whole soul,--notwithstanding the qualified commendations of it that may have found their way into some of the…

I rejoice that you have had the courage to exhibit in a systematic manner the essential barbarism of the institution.

Everywhere I hear your speech spoken of in the highest terms of admiration.

Even the most desperate conservatives are compelled to acknowledge your eloquence and ability.

Nor do they deny the justice of your attack on the system of Slavery.

It seems to me, however, that no occasion for denouncing an institution which is the ruin and disgrace of our nation can be inopportune.

The common people received it gladly; and its great power, eloquence, and exhaustive and unanswerable quality everybody acknowledges, even the enemy.

You have done a good service to the country, and a great one to your party, if they have the sense to make use of it.

Maugre them all, I say, and all right-minded men will say, it was judicious, well-timed, and german to the question before the country.

And yet I cannot forbear my congratulations at your so far recovered vigor and health, and the cause of Freedom and Humanity, that it still receives the powerful aid and advocacy of your voice and influence.

I only regret that a speech of such power as your last must be laid on the altar of Republicanism, while to the leaders of the party your utterances are distasteful, if not absolutely terrific.

Exciting, as it must, a rage of hatred in some, proportionate to the love and gratitude it secures from others, I am sure your life is in danger; but with you, the greater the danger, the greater the courage,--and courage is preservative.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.