To Frederick F. Low1Jump to section
Hon. F. F. Lowe Executive Mansion
San Francisco, Cal. Washington, D.C. Oct. 30. 1863
Below is an Act of Congress, passed last session, intended to exclude applicants not entitled to seats, but which, there is reason to fear, will be used to exclude some who are entitled. Please get with the governor and one or two other discreet friends, study the act carefully, and make certificates in two or three forms, according to your best judgment, and have them sent to me, so as to multiply the chances of the delegation getting their seats. Let it be done without publicity. Below is a form which may answer for one. If you could procure the same to be done for the Oregon member it might be well. A. LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. The act and the form of certificate which appear in the manuscript telegram are clipped from a printed form such as the ones upon which Lincoln wrote his letter to Chandler, supra, and the preceding ones to Grimes and Hamlin on October 29. Low telegraphed on November 7, ``Your dispatch received. Commissions in two forms were sent on the 6th. inst, one of each to each member and one to you. The certificates cover every point that I can think of If I knew the grounds of your apprehensions perhaps I could act more intelligently'' (DLC-RTL).