Hi Mo good to hear from you. Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. I was hoping for a third source, and a quick answer to prove this quote one way or the other. I'll do some more digging into this.

I also have an unverified quote from S. P. Chase, that the NARA says is alone the lines of Chases thinking and that he very well could have said it.

Any thoughts on how this Lincoln quote is a sourced quote but, still may be a fake?

GP