Abraham Lincoln: “The public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad…”

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.