Vaughan

[Passionately.]

I'd count it an honor to die for you——!

Lincoln

Well, I'm going to ask you to do something harder than that for a man of sensitive honor. These Copperhead traitors took advantage of your illness and grief over your father to inveigle you into a scheme of high treason——

Vaughan

What——!

Lincoln

You believed their purpose to be patriotic—didn't you——?

Vaughan