Annotation
[1] ADf, DLC-RTL. This document is obviously contemporary with the letters to Truman Smith, November 10, and Nathaniel P. Paschall, November 16, infra. Possibly Lincoln jotted down the statement for Henry S. Sanford to copy and take back with him (see letter to Smith). It is also possible that Lincoln jotted it down for the correspondent of the New York Tribune, whose dispatch of November 9 reads in part as follows: ``I believe it is correct to say that, although he is not at all unmindful of the uneasiness which may exist in many parts of the country, nor of the unfortunate commercial troubles that may have been threatened, he still does not discover any cause for specially developing his policy, or offering any public expression of his views.'' (New York Tribune, November 10, 1860).