Statistics for occurrence #1 of “President Lincoln” in chapter 25 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
...unconstitutional, he endeavored, by protest, argument, and administrative non-compliance, to impede its execution on the plea of first demanding a Supreme Court decision as to its legality.
To this President Lincoln replied:
I cannot consent to suspend the draft in New York, as you request, because, among other reasons, time is too important. . . . I do not object to abide a decision of the United States...
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