If You Are As Happy, My Dear

Our Union Rests Upon Public Opinion, And Can Never Be Cemented By The Blood Of Its Citizens Shed In Civil War.

If You Are As Happy In Entering The White House As I Shall Feel On Returning To Wheatland, You Are A Happy Man Indeed.

All The Friends That I Loved And Wanted To Reward Are Dead, And All The Enemies That I Hated And I Had Marked Out For Punishment Are Turned To My Friends.

The Course Of Events Is So Rapidly Hastening Forward That The Emergency May Soon Arise When You May Be Called Upon To Decide The Momentous Question Whether You Possess The Power By Force Of Arms To Compel A State To Remain In The Union

The Storm Of Frenzy And Faction Must Inevitably Dash Itself In Vain Against The Unshaken Rock Of The Constitution.