Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"I say 'initiation' because, in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all."

"In the mere financial or pecuniary view any member of Congress with the census tables and Treasury reports before him can readily see for himself how very soon the current expenditures of this war wou..."

"The United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid."

"As the 'journal' is an original document, pertaining to the archives of the Department of State, it is proper, when the Senate shall have arrived at a conclusion on the subject, that the volume be ret..."