Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"To assume and exercise control over the police of the city of Baltimore; to supersede and remove the civil police or any part thereof and establish a military police in said city."

"This is understood to be the only information on the subject of the resolution recently received which has not been made public."

"This renders it desirable that the Senate should decide in regard to it as soon as this may be convenient"

"I commend to the particular attention of Congress those parts of it which show that further legislation is desirable for the public welfare in that quarter."