Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2.

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Title
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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Pages

Page 376

To Friedrich K. F. Hecker1Jump to section

Frederick Hecker, Esq. Springfield,
My dear Sir, Sept. 14, 1856

Your much valued letter of the 7th is received. Could you not be with us here on the 25th of this month, when we expect to have a large mass-meeting? We cannot dispense with your services in this contest; and we ought, in a pecuniary way, to give you some relief in the difficulty of having your house burnt.2Jump to section I have started a proposition for this, among our friends, with a prospect of some degree of success. It is but fair and just; and I hope you will not decline to accept what we may be able to do.

Please write me whether you can be here on the 25th. Very truly yours, A. LINCOLN.

Annotation

[1]   Hertz, II, 690. Friedrich Karl Franz Hecker was an exiled German revolutionist, citizen of St. Clair County, Illinois, and a leader among the German Republicans of the state.

[2]   Hecker's home burned August 12, 1856, while he was addressing a Fremont meeting.

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