Abraham Lincoln: “I invite your attention to the correspondence between Her Britannic Majesty's minister accredited to this Government and…”

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

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.

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