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It is now fully settled that Bissell & our State ticket are elected by 6000 or 7000 majority. Buchanan gets the state by a majority not quite so large.
Some little expense bills are on me; and I have concluded to draw on you for $20. more, which is still ten dollars within the authority you kindly gave me. Your much obliged friend
A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS-P, ISLA. Former sheriff Richard Thorne was a merchant of Ottawa, Illinois, who apparently had subscribed to the Republican campaign expenses.