Abraham Lincoln said...

Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.

Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.

The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...