Carl Schurz and others, Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz… (1913)
“ Your letter of the 16th inst., presenting to me in the name of the “signers” an open reply to my Brooklyn speech, has been forwarded to me here. I am certainly far from underestimating the merit of that “reply” as a literary effort; but you must pardon me for saying that, with the best possible intention, I cannot find anything in it that in the remotest sense could stand as an answer to, or a refutation of, the arguments submitted by me to my hearers at Brooklyn. ”
