He was set in authority in that country, and the responsibility and the authority were his.

They were foolish Britons, and they risked much, who talked against the President of the United States in yon days.
I keened a' the time that America wad tak' her stand on the side o' the richt when the time came.

And when it came at last I was glad o' the chance to help, as I was allowed tae do.

I didna speak sae muckle in favor of recruiting; it was no sae needfu' in America as it had been in Britain, for in America there was conscription frae the first.
In America they were wise in Washington at the verra beginning.

They knew the history of the war in Britain, and they were resolved to profit by oor mistakes.
But what was needed, and sair needed, in America, was to mak' people who were sae far awa' frae the spectacle o' war as the Hun waged it understand what it meant.