The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton