“I have read your address on Foreign Relations without once
stopping.
“You have performed a very important public service in a
most able manner, and in a conjuncture when I hope that it
will be useful abroad and at home.…
“You are on the right track. Rouse the nationality of the
American people. It is an instinct upon which you can
always rely, even when the conscience that ought never to
slumber is drugged to death.”