GDG- a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man

[Dennis Lawrence]

Monday, January 17, 1848.
Washington, DC.
	

Seizure of colored waiter in Washington by three slave traders induces 
Giddings to introduce resolution to investigate slave trade in District or 
removing capital to free state. Lincoln votes against motion to table, but 
it passes.

He votes in favor of resolution declaring it inexpedient to order our 
troops in Mexico to fall back

Lincoln on Mexican War, January 12, 1848

Again, it is a singular omission in this message, that it, no where 
intimates when the President expects the war to terminate. At it's 
beginning, Genl. Scott was, by this same President, driven into disfavor, 
if not disgrace, for intimating that peace could not be conquered in less 
than three or four months. But now, at the end of about twenty months, 
during which time our arms have given us the most splendid successes--every 
department, and every part, land and water, officers and privates, regulars 
and volunteers, doing all that men could do, and hundreds of things which 
it had ever before been thought men could not do,--after all this, this 
same President gives us a long message, without showing us, that, as to the 
end, he himself, has, even an imaginary conception. As I have before said, 
he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably 
perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show, there is not something 
about his conscious, more painful than all his mental perplexi

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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706