Abraham Lincoln actually said...

Break that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more forever.

I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually.

How much better for you and for your people to take the step which at once shortens the war and secures substantial compensation for that wh...

The said line from Rolla to and across Little Piney be first completed, and as soon as possible.