And that was contemptible cowardice.

You picked him up, a clean young man of ideals, and tried to train him in your cowardly shadow ways.

When the pricking of your conscience made you feel some responsibility for me, you manifested it like a coward.

You sent a cowardly message to the best man that ever lived, not knowing, not caring how it would wound him.

And you have been a great thief, stealing away from men the thing they should prize most, but you have taught them to distrust it--their faith in their country--even more, their faith in each other! The shadows have followed you to your own home.