...1/strict"> Why, said Mr. Defrees, you have used an undignified expression in the message; and then, reading the paragraph aloud, he added, I would alter the structure of that, if I were you. Defrees , replied Mr. Lincoln, that word expresses precisely my idea, and I am not going to change it. The time will never come in this country when the people won't know exactly what sugar-coated means! ...