Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"That we may not touch property lying within our reach because we can not give personal notice to an owner who is absent endeavoring to destroy the Government is certainly not very satisfactory."

"By fair construction persons within these sections are not to be punished without regular trials in duly constituted courts."

"There is much in the bill to which I perceive no objection."

"I think the greater punishment can not be constitutionally inflicted in a different form for the same offense."