Willard's [washington], Sept. 15, 1863.
I have had a very pleasant hour with Governor Andrew. He
talked about Rob and how very fond he had become of him. He said that, at the
Williamstown Commencement Dinner, he mentioned him in his speech, and there was
not a dry eye in the room. He said too that he meant to live long enough to
help finish a monument at Charleston which should be connected in the Nation's
heart with Colonel Shaw, as Bunker Hill is with Warren. His tender,
affectionate way of saying "Colonel Shaw" touched me very much, — it
made me feel like crying too. I wish we had a large-hearted man like Andrew for
President. Andrew had been to see Mr. Lincoln to-day about the coloured
regiment prisoners, and thinks the right thing will yet be done. I talked with
Stanton about them, and find he feels exactly as we do; that we must stop all
exchanging till all prisoners are placed on the same footing.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 304-5
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