Abraham Lincoln: “I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made and concluded at the city of…”

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

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

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?

He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget: "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no…