Lincoln congratulates Seward on his speech. "I have been thinking about what you said in your speech. I reckon you are right. We have got to deal with this slavery question, and got to give more attention to it hereafter than we have been doing."William H. Seward, Autobiography of William H. Seward, edited by Frederick W. Seward, vol. 1 of Seward at Washington (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), 79-8on.

He then starts on his journey home.Boston Atlas, 25 September 1848.