Annotation
[1] LS, IHi. Sargent's letter of November 4 is not in the Lincoln Papers, but his reply on November 12 states that Judge Campbell had suggested Thomas Ewing of Ohio. Writing from Washington, Sargent may have referred to Judge John A. Campbell of the United States Supreme Court, who was trying to assuage hostile feelings in the South, but in view of Sargent's Philadelphia connections, he may have meant the prominent Democrat James Campbell, who had been judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, 1842-1850.