Daniel Webster to Dr. John C. Warren, December 7, 1850

Washington, December 7, 1850.

MY DEAR SIR,—I have been impatient for a week to find time to thank you, as I now most sincerely do, for the part you bore in the great Union meeting; and congratulate you also on your distinguished success. Your speech will be read all over the country. It is short, full of sense and matter, and touching, and pathetic. I was at Mr. Seaton's two days after the speech arrived, and he said he had read it four times already, and rising from his chair, he read it again, with evident emotion. It is truly an important thing, for the country and for yourself.

The whole character of the meeting was excellent. The more elaborate speeches are greatly commended in this quarter, and we hope to circulate all the proceedings of the meeting extensively.

Yours, truly and sincerely,

DAN'L WEBSTER.

SOURCE: Fletcher Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol. 2, p. 406