Abraham Lincoln: “In the annual message last December I thought fit to say 'the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means…”

Second. That the flag, when raised, be saluted by one hundred guns from Fort Sumter and by a national salute from every fort and rebel battery that fired upon Fort Sumter.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

All dreaded it,--all sought to avert it.