It might well indeed be said of Mr.Seward as Mr.Webster said of Samuel Dexter, "The earnestness of his convictions wrought conviction in others.

One was convinced and believed and assented because it was gratifying and delightful to think and feel and believe in unison with an intellect of such evident superiority." Equipped with these rare endowments, it is not strange that Mr.Seward made a deep impression upon the mind of the President.

In conflicts of opinion the superior mind, the subtle address, the fixed purpose, the gentle yet strong will, must in the end prevail.

Mr.Seward gave to the President the most luminous exposition of his own views, warm, generous, patriotic in tone.

He set before him the glory of an Administration which should completely re-establish the union of the States, and re-unite the hearts of the people, now estranged by civil conflict.