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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
I am willing that any case, that of Judge Hughes as well as another, if coming within the precedent of what I call the Johnson case, may go as the Johnson case did. I really desire that Judge Hughes shall be obliged. A. LINCOLN
Oct. 20, 1864.
Annotation
[1] ADS, owned by Richard F. Lufkin, Boston, Massachusetts. See Lincoln's recommendation for Hughes, October 22, infra, and Lincoln to Fessenden, October 3, supra.