Translations:Abraham Lincoln/16/en

At the meeting Jay Cooke declared, “I will continue to have dealings with the Confederacy. Not out of fear of betrayal, but because, in peace and in war, a businessman must do business, whatever the stakes.” At the end of the meeting Cooke told Booth, “There are millions of dollars in profits to be made, and we’re being denied our share. We’ll be ruined if Lincoln’s policies are continued.”