Annotation
[1] ADf, DLC-RTL. The article headed ``THE CHICAGO TIMES'' appeared in the Daily Chronicle for Saturday, June 6, 1863. Lincoln's anonymous letter, of which the above is obviously a first draft, appeared in the Chronicle on Sunday, June 7, considerably revised, or edited by the Chronicle, as follows:
``A correspondent corrects an error of date in the article in Saturday's CHRONICLE on the Chicago Times, and adds some items of interesting information. He says:
`` `Upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise the democratic newspapers of Chicago went over to the Opposition. Thereupon the Times was established by the friends of the Administration, Senator Douglas being the most prominent in establishing it. Mr. James Sheahan, from this city, was its editor from its first foundation up to the election in 1860. On the political separation between Mr. Buchanan and Senator Douglas, the Times adhered to the Senator, and was the ablest paper in his support through his senatorial contest with Mr. Lincoln. During the last Presidential election Mr. Sheahan left the Times, which had been bought, as you state, by Mr. McCormick; and a man named McComas, a bitter pro-slavery man and a Virginian, became its editor. Sheahan