To Owen Lovejoy in 1855
SPRINGFIELD, August 11, 1855. Mr. Owen Lovejoy, My dear Sir: Yours of the 7th. was received the day before yesterday. Not even you are more anxious to prevent the extension of slavery than I. And yet...
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SPRINGFIELD, June 7, 1856 Hon. Lyman Trumbull My dear Sir: The news of Buchanan’s nomination came yesterday; and a good many Whigs, of conservative feelings, and slight pro-slavery proclivities,...
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SPRINGFIELD June 23, 1858. John L. Scripps, Esq. [1] My dear Sir: Your kind note of yesterday is duly received. I am much flattered by the estimate you place on my late speech; and yet I am much...
View ArticleTo Dr. B. Clarke Lundy
SPRINGFIELD, Nov. 26, 1858. Dr. B. C. Lundy: My dear Sir: Your kind letter with enclosure is received, and for which I thank you. It being my own judgement that the fight must go on, it affords me...
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To Alexander H. Stephens SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 19 January, 1860. Duplicated for Senator Jno. J. Crittenden Honorable A. H. Stephens [1] Dear Sir: Your letter and one from Hon. J. J. Crittenden,...
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To O. P. Hall AND I (or J.) H. Fullininder SPRINGFIELD Feb. 4, 1860. Messrs. O. P. Hall & …………I OR J. H. Fullininder. Gentlemen: Your letter in which, among other things, you ask what I meant when...
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To William C. Baker Springfield, May 28, 1860. Wm. C. Baker, You request an autograph and here it is. A. Lincoln
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Springfield, Illinois, May 28, 1860. Hon. George Ashmun, President of the Republican National Convention: SIR—I accept the nomination tendered me by the Convention over which you presided, and of which...
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To Leonard Swett Springfield, Ills. May 30, 1860. Hon. L. Swett. My dear Sir: Your letter written to go to New York is long, but substantially right I believe. You heard Weed conversed with me, and...
View ArticleTo Mrs. M. J. Green
SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Sep 22, 1860. MRS. M. J. GREEN My dear Madam: Your kind congratulatory letter, of August, was received in due course, and should have been answered sooner. The truth is I have never...
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Private SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec 8, 1860. Hon. Lyman Trumbull, My Dear Sir: Yours of the 2nd is received. I regret exceedingly the anxiety of our friends in New York, of whom you write; but it seems to...
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To Lyman Trumbull from A. Lincoln
Private & Confidential SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Dec. 10. 1860 Hon. L. Trumbull. My Dear Sir: Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere...
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Intent to retake S. C. Forts if surrendered
To Lyman Trumbull SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Dec. 24, 1860 Hon. Lyman Trumbull— My dear Sir. I expect to be able to offer Mr. Blair a place in the cabinet; but I can not, as yet, be committed on the matter,...
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Re-enforcements thrown into Fort Pickens – Confederate Correspondence
PENSACOLA, April 13, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War: Re-enforcements thrown into Fort Pickens last night by small boats from the outside. The movement could not even be seen from our side,...
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