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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.
A. B. Morean, Esq. Springfield,
Sir: Sept. 7- 1854
Stranger tho' I am, personally, being a brother in the faith, I venture to write you. Yates2Jump to section can not come to your court next week. He is obliged to be at Pike court where he has a case, with a fee of $500, $200 already paid. To neglect it would be unjust to himself, and dishonest to his client. Harris3Jump to section will be with you, head up and tail up, for Nebraska. You must have some one to make
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an anti-Nebraska speech. Palmer4Jump to section is the best, if you can get him, I think---Jo. Gillespie, if you can not get Palmer---and somebody anyhow, if you can get neither. But press Palmer hard. It is in his Senatorial District I believe. Yours &c A. LINCOLN---
Annotation
[1] ALS, IHi. Alexander B. Morean was a druggist and Whig politician of Jerseyville, Illinois.