Abraham Lincoln: “I have no good news to tell you, and yet I have no bad news to tell.”

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?

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.

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