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are unfavorable to a candid and patriotic consideration of 

 this subject. The wise and the good in the South and the 

 Southwest (and I have known many such) will, when the 

 present feverish excitement has died away, come to view 

 this matter right, and we must patiently wait for that most 

 desirable result." 



His vindication of himself satisfied reasonable men. 



Saturday, May 3. My Kansas letter meets with great 

 approbation, as I learn from many sources ; but I have 

 not heard whether it has been attacked by the slavery 

 prints. It is approved by G. Griswold, Joseph E. Worces- 

 ter, and many more. The Hon. John P. Hale, to whom it 

 was addressed, has written me a private letter of warm 

 approbation. I continue to receive vituperative newspapers 

 and letters. The latter are generally very illiterate and 

 vulgar. I hand them over to Mrs. S., who reads and re- 

 ports to me. 



FROM HON. JOHN P. HALE. 



WASHINGTON, May 3, 1856. 



MY DEAR SIR, Your very acceptable letter of the 16th 

 ult., accompanying a letter to the editors of the " National 

 Intelligencer," was duly received, and your request to have 

 your letter inserted in that paper, was communicated to its 

 editors, and very promptly acceded to by them. I use not 

 the language of flattery when I say to you, that the friends 

 of freedom in Kansas, in this city, were highly gratified by 

 the bold and frank vindication of the measures adopted by 

 the emigrants and their friends at New Haven, under your 

 name in the columns of that paper. If we cannot maintain 

 liberty in Kansas, though I never will despair while I be- 

 lieve God sits on his eternal throne, yet so far as human 

 foresight can penetrate the future, I see nothing before this 

 country but the establishing, perpetuating, and increasing of 

 the domination of the slave-power. Our aifairs in Central 

 America are becoming very embarrassing. The fact just 



