Abraham Lincoln actually said...

The execution of the laws for the suppression of the African slave trade has been confided to the Department of the Interior.

I venture to hope it will appear that we have practiced prudence and liberality toward foreign powers, averting causes of irritation and wit...

The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also.

If it were just to suppose, as the insurgents have seemed to assume, that foreign nations in this case, discarding all moral, social, and tr...