Abraham Lincoln: “Most heartily do I congratulate you, and Maryland, and the nation, and the world, upon the event.”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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?