Herndon recounted, 'I have felt many and many a time that I wanted to wring their little necks, and yet out of respect for Lincoln I kept my mouth shut. Lincoln did not note what his children were doing or had done.' Herndon recounted, 'I have felt many and many a time that I wanted to wring their little necks, and yet out of respect for Lincoln I kept my mouth shut. Lincoln did not note what his children were doing or had done.' Historian David Herbert Donald described the speech as a 'superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's (Seward) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's (Chase) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery'. In response to an inquiry about his ambitions, Lincoln said, 'The taste is in my mouth a little.'
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