Lincoln: We have sent a protest.
Custis: No good. Must do more.
Lincoln: What more can we do?
Custis: You know.
Lincoln: Yes; but don't ask me for reprisals.
Custis (gleaming): Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
Lincoln: No, no. You must think. Think what you are saying.
Custis: I think of murdered black men.
Lincoln: You would not ask me to murder?
Custis: Punish—not murder.