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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
H. C. Whitney, Esq Springfield,
My dear Sir: June 7. 1855
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 1200 in this county.
It is conceded on all hands that the Prohibitory law is also beaten.2Jump to section Yours truly A. LINCOLN---
Annotation
[1] ALS, owned by Mrs. Logan Hay, Springfield, Illinois. Whitney was a young attorney at Urbana, Illinois, whose association with Lincoln became elaborated in his book Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (1892), which contained some valuable and much questionable material.