PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE.
AN EXPLANATION IN REPLY TO AN ASSAULT.
Statement prepared for Presentation in the Senate, March, 1871.
Si rixa est, ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum.
Stat contra, starique jubet; parere necesse est.
Nam quid agas, cum te furiosus cogat, et idem
Fortior?
Juvenal, Sat. III. 289-92.