The whole party is most anxious for your co-operation.

If this be so,--and I make you the assurance from most conclusive evidence,--you are bound to accept the common consent of your political friends on that matter.

You perhaps think that at a certain period of your life you failed.

They all agree with me that you did not fail.

It is a matter on which you should be bound by our opinion rather than by your own.
As to that matter of duty I shall have less difficulty in carrying you with me.