TO O. L. DAVIS.1 O. L. DAVIS, Esq. SPRINGFIELD, June 22, 1854. DEAR SIR:-You, no doubt, remember the enclosed memorandum being handed me in your office. I have just made the desired search, and find that no such deed has ever been here. Campbell, the auditor, says that if it were here, it would be in his office, and that he has hunted for it a dozen times, and could never find it. He says that one time and another, he has heard much about the matter, that it was not a deed for Right of Way, but a deed, outright, for Depot-ground-at least, a sale for Depot-ground, and there may never have been a deed. He says, if there is a deed, it is most probable General Alexander, of Paris, has it. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO A. B. MOREAU.1 A. B. MOREAU, ESQ. SPRINGFIELD, September 7, 1854. SIR: Stranger though I am, personally, being a brother in the faith, I venture to write you. Yates can not come to your court next week. He is obliged to be at Pike court where he has a case, with a fee of five hundred dollars, two hundred dollars already paid. To neglect it would be unjust to himself, and dishonest to his client. Harris will be 1 Gunther Collection. with you, head up and tail up, for Nebraska. You must have some one to make an anti-Nebraska speech. Palmer is the best, if you can get him, I think. Jo. Gillespie, if you can not get Palmer, and somebody anyhow, if you can get neither. But But press Palmer hard. believe. It is in his Senatorial district, I Yours etc., A. LINCOLN. TO T. J. HENDERSON.1 T. J. HENDERSON, ESQ. SPRINGFIELD, November 27, 1854. MY DEAR SIR:-It has come round that a Whig may, by possibility, be elected to the United States Senate, and I want the chance of being the man. You are a member of the Legislature, and have a vote to give. Think it over, and see whether you can do better than to go for me. Write me, at all events; and let this be confidential. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO T. J. HENDERSON.1 HON. T. J. HENDERSON. SPRINGFIELD, December 15, 1854. DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 11th was received last night, and for which I thank you. Of course I 1 From the original manuscript in the possession of General Thomas J. Henderson. prefer myself to all others; yet it is neither in my heart nor my conscience to say I am any better man than Mr. Williams. We shall have a terrible struggle with our adversaries. They are desperate and bent on desperate deeds. I accidentally learned of one of the leaders here writing to a member south of 'here, in about the following language: "We are beaten. They have a clean majority of at least nine, on joint ballot. They outnumber us, but we must outmanage them. Douglas must be sustained. We must elect the Speaker; and we must elect a Nebraska United States Senator, or elect none at all." Similar letters, no doubt, are written to every Nebraska member. Be considering how we can best meet, and foil, and beat them. I send you, by mail, a copy of my Peoria speech. You may have seen it before, or you may not think it worth seeing now. Do not speak of the Nebraska letter mentioned above; I do not wish it to become public, that I received such information. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO O. H. BROWNING.1 HON. O. H. BROWNING. SPRINGFIELD, March 23, 1855. MY DEAR SIR:-Your letter to Judge Logan has been shown to us by him; and, with his consent, we 1 Gunther Collection. answer it. When it became probable that there would be a vacancy on the Supreme Bench, public opinion, on this side of the river, seemed to be universally directed to Logan as the proper man to fill it. I mean public opinion on our side in politics, with very small manifestation in any different direction by the other side. The result is, that he has been a good deal pressed to allow his name to be used, and he has consented to it, provided it can be done with perfect cordiality and good feeling on the part of all our own friends. We, the undersigned, are very anxious for it; and the more so now that he has been urged, until his mind is turned upon the matter. We, therefore are very glad of your letter, with the information it brings us, mixed only with a regret that we can not elect Logan and Walker both. We shall be glad, if you will hoist Logan's name, in your Quincy papers. Very truly your friends, A. LINCOLN, B. S. EDWARDS, I concur in the propriety of running Judge Logan as he has consented. He would, I think, be elected easier than Mr. Walker, this side of the river. Mr. Walker is almost wholly out of public notice. Personally I esteem Mr. Walker highly and would be glad to see him elected. D. DAVIS. TO H. C. WHITNEY. H. C. WHITNEY, ESQ. SPRINGFIELD, June 7, 1855. MY DEAR SIR:-Your note containing election news is received; and for which I thank you. It is all of no use, however. Logan is worse beaten than any other man ever was since elections were invented-beaten more than twelve hundred in this county. It is conceded on all hands that the Prohibitory law is also beaten. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO R. P. MORGAN.1 R. P. MORGAN, ESQ.: SPRINGFIELD, February 13, 1856. Says Tom to John, "Here's your old rotten wheelbarrow. I've broke it usin' on it. I wish you would mend it, 'case I shall want to borrow it this arternoon." Acting on this as a precedent, I say, "Here's your old chalked hat,' I wish you would take it and send me a new one, 'case I shall want to use it the first of March." 2 Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. 1 By permission of R. P. Morgan, Esq. 2 The common name, at that time, for a pass on the railroad. VOL. VII.-25. |