I mean this to be confidential.
If you quietly co-operate with Mr. J. O. Johnson on getting up an
organization, I think it will be right.
Your friend as ever,
A. LINCOLN.
1858
ANOTHER POLITICAL PATRONAGE REFERENCE
TO EDWARD G. MINER.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb.19, 1858.
MY DEAR SIR:
Mr. G. A. Sutton is an applicant for superintendent of the addition of
the Insane Asylum, and I understand it partly depends on you whether he
gets it.
Sutton is my fellow-townsman and friend, and I therefore wish to say for
him that he is a man of sterling integrity and as a master mechanic and
builder not surpassed by any in our city, or any I have known anywhere,
as far as I can judge. I hope you will consider me as being really
interested for Mr. Sutton and not as writing merely to relieve myself of
importunity. Please show this to Col. William Ross and let him consider
it as much intended for him as for yourself.
Your friend as ever,
A. LINCOLN.
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
TO W. H. LAMON, ESQ.
SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 11, 1858
DEAR SIR:--Yours of the 9th written at Joliet is just received. Two or
three days ago I learned that McLean had appointed delegates in favor of
Lovejoy, and thenceforward I have considered his renomination a fixed
fact.
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