Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"The advices which have been received from him have not hitherto been sufficiently conclusive to determine me to recognize the revolutionary Government."

"The Secretary of State has submitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant."

"I have not received any representative from the revolutionary Government, which has not yet been recognized, because such a proceeding would in itself be an act of recognition."

"I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the adoption of such measures in relation to the subject of it as may be deemed expedient, a copy of a note of the 8th instant addresse..."