Lincoln: Don't you see that to withdraw may postpone war, but that it will make it inevitable in the end?
Smith: It is inevitable if we resist.
Lincoln: I fear it will be so. But in that case we shall enter it with uncompromised principles. Mr. Chase?
Chase: It is difficult. But, on the whole, my opinion is with yours, Mr. President.
Lincoln: And you, Seward?
Seward: I respect your opinion, but I must differ.
A knock at the door.
Lincoln: Come in.
HAY comes in. He gives a letter to LINCOLN and goes.
(Reading): Scott says twenty thousand men.