Abraham Lincoln: “Herewith is a draft of a bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which…”

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.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.