I must say, then, that if we are to judge of your foresight and knowledge and power to wield the arms of this country, from what has already occurred we have a right to say that you are tardy in your operations, that you rejected altogether advice in the first instance which we were beforehand with you in recommending, and that you have been compelled to act at last, as you ought to have done at first, with an amount of Vigour and Energy Which a Crisis unparalleled in the history of the country appears to me to call for.