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[1] Copy, DLC-RTL. Ex-representative (1839-1843, 1845-1849) and Senator (1849-1854) Truman Smith of Stamford, Connecticut, wrote on November 7, urging Lincoln to make a public statement `` . . . to disarm mischief makers, to
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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allay causeless anxiety, to compose the public mind and to induce all good citizens to . . . `judge the tree by it's fruit'. . . . '' (DLC-RTL). See also Lincoln to George T. M. Davis, October 27, supra.
[2] Henry S. Sanford of Derby, Connecticut, charge d'affaires at Paris during President Taylor's administration, had carried a letter of introduction dated October 30, 1860 (DLC-RTL), but there is no other letter from Smith prior to that of November 7. Probably Sanford's mission was concerned with the same subject as Smith's letter of November 7.