Your note of to-day was handed me by Gen. Whiteside.2Open page In that note you say you have been informed, through the medium of the editor of the Journal,3Open page that I am the author of certain articles in that paper which you deem personally abusive of you: and without stopping to enquire whether I really am the author, or to point out what is offensive in them, you demand an unqualified retraction of all that is offensive; and then proceed to hint at consequences.
Now, sir, there is in this so much assumption of facts, and so much of menace as to consequences, that I cannot submit to answer that note any farther than I have, and to add, that the consequence to which I suppose you allude, would be matter of as great regret to me as it possibly could to you.4Open page Respectfully,
A. LINCOLN.