Abraham Lincoln: “I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and…”

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

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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 all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.