Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
Where is the Monitor?
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy:
Commodore Smith?
[Smith wordlessly passes a dispatch to Davis]
Cmdr. Davis:
The Monitor was last sighted off the Delaware-Maryland border, floundering in the very heavy weather.
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
In other words, she may already be at the bottom of the ocean!
Abraham Lincoln:
I'm sure the Monitor is still afloat. I look for her to be the veritable sling with a stone that smites the Merrimack Philistine in the forehead.
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
Mr. President, do you really have that much faith in Ericsson's untested experiment?
Abraham Lincoln:
I have that much faith in Providence, which did not create this great Union to see it be destroyed by the invention of a weapon. If the Monitor doesn't stop the Merrimack, something else will. Good night, gentlemen.
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