A Voice
Yes, five to two.
Seward’s Voice
A month
Has gone by and no policy. You should
Take hold yourself, or on a cabinet member
Devolve the task.
Lincoln
Whatever’s to be done
Is mine to do.
Seward’s Voice
Fort Sumpter leave alone!
If we employ armed force we have begun
A civil war—without armed force we fail.
We cannot take the fort and keep the fort,
Unless we subjugate the States as well.
No, let us not first draw the sword.
Lincoln
To say—