The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . the whole subject will be oneof the most pressing and important for the next Con-gress. By the Constitution, the executive may recom- 300 SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. mend measures which he may think proper, and hemay veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposedthat he may add to these certain indirect influences toaffect the action of Congress. My political educationstrongly inclines me against a very free use of any ofthese means by the executive to control th
The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . the whole subject will be oneof the most pressing and important for the next Con-gress. By the Constitution, the executive may recom- 300 SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. mend measures which he may think proper, and hemay veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposedthat he may add to these certain indirect influences toaffect the action of Congress. My political educationstrongly inclines me against a very free use of any ofthese means by the executive to control the legislationof the country. As a rule, I think it better that Con-gress should originate as well as perfect its measureswithout external bias. I therefore would rather recom-mend to every gentleman who knows he is to be a mem-ber of the next Congress to take an enlarged view, andpost himself thoroughly, so as to contribute his part tosuch an adjustment of the tariff as shall produce asufficient revenue, and in its other bearings, so far aspossible, be just and equal to all sections of the countryand classes of the Lincoln Portrait by Sartain SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 301 ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NEWYORK, AT ALBANY, N. Y., FEB. 18, 1861. [In the subjoined speech, one of those delivered on his journeyfrom his Illinois home to the Capital, the president-elect returnsthanks to the General Assembly of New York State for its greet-ings and warm reception. He speaks with becoming modesty ofhimself as the recipient of the united support of the great Em-pire State in the difficult task before him, in assuming the reinsof government at a most critical juncture in the affairs of theNation. Of the policy of the new government, he, as yet, wiselysays nothing, as the time and place had not come for , he indicates that he is seeking diligently for light onthe problems with which he must shortly deal, and promises thatwhen ready to speak and act it shall be in th
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