Abraham Lincoln: “I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.”

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?

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

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