I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.


Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)


I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men...

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men...

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men...

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men...