the work we are in—together 🇺🇸

while Minnesota will maintain her principles, she will require and permit nothing to be done that does not favor the maintenance of the Constitution and fidelity to the Union."

Abraham Lincoln to Sen. Morton S. Wilkinson and the Minnesota delegation, Mar. 1861 🇺🇸

your way have very correct political views, and so in that particular, also, I give them my approbation. And while their political sentiments accord with mine, I have no reason to doubt that they look upon the rights of their brethren further south as being entirely equal to their own, and that