Abraham Lincoln: “The practice here forbidden is also charged to exist, which, if true, is disapproved and must cease.”

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?

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.