Cast about and see if this feeling
has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.
Now, in what I have said I am sure you will suspect nothing but sincere
friendship. I would save you from a fatal error. You have been a studious
young man. You are far better informed on almost all subjects than I ever
have been. You cannot fail in any laudable object unless you allow your
mind to be improperly directed. I have some the advantage of you in the
world's experience, merely by being older; and it is this that induces me
to advise. You still seem to be a little mistaken about the Congressional
Globe and Appendix. They contain all of the speeches that are published
in any way. My speech and Dayton's speech which you say you got in
pamphlet form are both word for word in the Appendix. I repeat again, all
are there.
Your friend, as ever,
A. LINCOLN.
GENERAL TAYLOR AND THE VETO
SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JULY 27, 1848.
Mr. SPEAKER, our Democratic friends seem to be in a great distress
because they think our candidate for the Presidency don't suit us. Most
of them cannot find out that General Taylor has any principles at all;
some, however, have discovered that he has one, but that one is entirely
wrong.
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