Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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To Benjamin F. James1Jump to section

Dear James: Springfield, Jany. 27. 1846

Yours enclosing the article2Jump to section from the Whig is received. In my judgment you have hit the matter exactly right. I believe it is too late to get the article in the Journal of this week;3Jump to section but Dickinson4Jump to section will understand it just as well from your paper, knowing, as he does, your position towards me. More than all, I wrote him at the same time I did you. As to suggestions for the committee, I would say appoint the convention for the first monday of May---as to the place, I can hardly make a suggestion, so many points desiring it. I was at Petersburg saturday and sunday; and they are very anxious for it there. A friend has also written me, desiring it at Beardstown.5Jump to section

I would have the committee leave the mode of choosing delegates to the whigs of the different counties, as may best suit them respectively. I would have them propose, for the sake of uniformity that the delegates should all be instructed as to their man, and the delegation of each county should go as a unit. If, without this, some counties should send united delegations & others divided ones, it might make bad work.

Also have it proposed, that when the convention shall meet, if there shall be any absent delegates, the members present may fill

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the vacancies, with persons to act under the same instructions, which may be known to have been given to such absentees. You understand. Other particulars I leave to you. I am sorry to say I am afraid I can not go to Mason, so as to attend to your business; but if I shall determine to go there, I will write you.

Do you hear any thing from Woodford & Marshall? Davenport,6Jump to section ten days ago, passed through here, and told me Woodford is safe; but, though in hope, I am not entirely easy about Marshall. I have so few personal acquaintances in that county, that I can not get at [it?] right. Dickinson is doing all that any one man can do; but it seems like it is an over-task for one.

I suppose Dr. Henry will be with you on saturday. I got a letter from him to-day on the same subject as yours; and shall write him before saturday. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1]   ALS, MH.

[2]   An editorial which Lincoln had requested in his letter of January 16, and which appeared in the Tazewell Whig, January 24, 1846.

[3]   Appeared in the issue for February 5, 1846.

[4]   B. F. Dickinson.

[5]   It was held at Petersburg on May 1.

[6]   Reverend William Davenport.

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