For it is altogether necessary to go forward." Seward seemed to pull himself together.

He took a turn down the room and then faced Lincoln.
"Mr.President," he said, "you do not know whether you have a majority behind you even in the North.

You have no experience of government and none of war.

The ablest men in your party are luke-warm or hostile towards you.

You have no army to speak of, and will have to make everything from the beginning.