To Lyman Trumbull1Jump to section
My dear Sir: Reaching home from Chicago, where I have been engaged two weks in the trial of a lawsuit, I found your letter of March 26th.
Of course you can do no better for Delahay than you promise.2Jump to section
I am trying to keep out of the contest among our friends for the Gubernatorial nomination;3Jump to section but from what I hear, the result is in considerable doubt.
We have just had a clear party victory in our city election; and our friends are more encouraged, and our enemies more cowed by it, than by anything since the organization of the Republican party. Last year we carried the city; but we did it, not by our own strength; but by an open feud among our enemies. This year their feud was healed; and we beat them fairly by main strength.
I can scarcely give an opinion as to what effect a nomination of Judge McLean, by the Union convention, would have.4Jump to section I do not believe he would accept it; and if he did, that fact alone, I think, would shut him out of the Chicago covention. If he were ten years younger he would be our best candidate. Yours as ever
A. LINCOLN