We'll write strong notes--nothing more.
I can't possibly exaggerate the revulsion of feeling.

Members of the Government say (in private, of course) that we'll submit to any insult.

The newspapers refuse to publish articles which attempt to make the President's silence reasonable.

"It isn't defensible," they say, "and they would only bring us thousands of insulting letters from our readers." I can't think of a paper nor of a man who has a good word to say for us--except, perhaps, a few Quaker peace-at-any-price people.

And our old friends are disappointed and sorrowful.