Dear Judge Springfield, Ills. Sept. 12. 1849
Your letter asking my aid in behalf of your friend Stickney has been received. I had already made a recommendation for the Secretaryship of Oregon; I however mentioned that, and then endorsed you and Webb in the strongest terms I could and sent your letters to Mr. Clayton. Please accept my thanks for your kind letter to the President in my behalf; and also the expression of my deep regret for your failure in the late congressional contest. I did not, however, dare to hope for your success. There was too much against you. Your friend as ever A. LINCOLN