Abraham Lincoln: “I submit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of extradition concluded by Mr.…”

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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?