It won even the rural Congressmen.

It was read in every capital and the men who conduct every government looked up and said, "This is a real man, a brave man, a just man." You will recall what Sir Edward Grey said to me: "The President has taught us all a lesson and set us all a high example in the noblest courtesy." This one act brought these two nations closer together than they had ever been since we became an independent nation.

It was an act of courtesy....
My dear House, suppose the postman some morning were to leave at your door a thing of thirty-five heads and three appendices, and you discovered that it came from an old friend whom you had long known and greatly valued--this vast mass of legal stuff, without a word or a turn of courtesy in it--what would you do?
He had a grievance, your old friend had.

Friends often have.

But instead of explaining it to you, he had gone and had his lawyers send this many-headed, much-appendiced ton of stuff.