Abraham Lincoln: “Since then the company has represented to me that upon actual surveys made it has determined upon the precise point of…”

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

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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