Miller's is just
received. I have been absent four days. I do not know when your court
sits.
Trumbull has written the committee here to have a set of appointments
made for him commencing here in Springfield, on the 11th of Sept., and to
extend throughout the south half of the State. When he goes to
Lawrenceville, as he will, I will strain every nerve to be with you and
him. More than that I cannot promise now.
Yours as truly as ever,
A. LINCOLN.
TO HARRISON MALTBY.
[Confidential]
SPRINGFIELD, September 8, 1856.
DEAR SIR:--I understand you are a Fillmore man. Let me prove to you that
every vote withheld from Fremont and given to Fillmore in this State
actually lessens Fillmore's chance of being President. Suppose Buchanan
gets all the slave States and Pennsylvania, and any other one State
besides; then he is elected, no matter who gets all the rest. But suppose
Fillmore gets the two slave States of Maryland and Kentucky; then
Buchanan is not elected; Fillmore goes into the House of Representatives,
and may be made President by a compromise. But suppose, again, Fillmore's
friends throw away a few thousand votes on him in Indiana and Illinois;
it will inevitably give these States to Buchanan, which will more than
compensate him for the loss of Maryland and Kentucky, will elect him, and
leave Fillmore no chance in the House of Representatives or out of it.
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