It was little comfort to me, after so much bloodshed, to know that the victors sided with me, and the vanquished with Greeley .-- It is little comfort to know that Horace Greeley is responsible for the battle of Sadowa, and not me.
"Queen Victoria wrote me that she felt just as I did about it--she said that as much as she was opposed to Greeley and the spirit he showed in the correspondence with me, she would not have had Sadowa happen for hundreds of dollars.

I can show you her letter, if you would like to see it.

But gentlemen, much as you may think you know about that unhappy correspondence, you cannot know the straight of it till you hear it from my lips.

It has always been garbled in the journals, and even in history.

Yes, even in history--think of it! Let me--please let me, give you the matter, exactly as it occurred.