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Quotation from House Divided Speech by Abraham Lincoln
“in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft, drawn up before the first blow was struck.”
House Divided Speech, Paragraph 16 (Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, Everyman's Library (1907))
The conclusion of the framed-timbers image, naming Douglas, Pierce, Taney, and Buchanan by their first names.
Citation: "in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft, drawn up before the first blow was struck." — Abraham Lincoln, House Divided Speech, Paragraph 16 (Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, Everyman's Library (1907)). (id house-divided-speech-q4)
Portrait: Abraham Lincoln LCCN2002717219, Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain.
