On that evening I delivered my first public address in New York, and have been told that it was the occasion of my call to be a pastor in that city two years afterwards.

A gold medal was presented to Neal Dow that evening.

He went home with me to Trenton, and from that time our intimacy was so great and our correspondence so constant that if I had preserved all his letters they would make a history of the prohibition movement from 1851 to 1857, the years of its widest successes.

With him I addressed the legislature of New York, who passed a law of prohibition very soon afterwards.

A forceful, magnetic man was General Dow, thoroughly honest and courageous, with a womanly tenderness in his sympathies.