Abraham Lincoln: “It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for…”

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.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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…