In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, both General McClellan (or Sheridan[46] ?) and General Forsythe were sent to the German Army.

Our military ideas have shrunk since then! I find at this date (a month before the Presidential election), the greatest tangle and uncertainty of political opinion that I have ever observed in our country.

The President, in spite of his unparalleled leadership and authority in domestic policy, is by no means certain of election.

He has the open hostility of the Germans--all very well, if he had got the fruits of a real hostility to them; but they have, in many ways, directed his foreign policy.

He has lost the silent confidence of many men upon whose conscience this great question weighs heavily.