Abraham Lincoln: “Break that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more forever.”

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 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.

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

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.