Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I earnestly beg the attention of Congress and the people to the subject.

If the proposition contained in the resolution does not meet the approval of Congress and the country, there is the end; but if it does comm...

War has been made and continues to be an indispensable means to this end.

In the annual message last December I thought fit to say 'the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed.'