To William H. Seward1 September 25, 1861 Tahiti is vacant; and if the Secretary of State knows no objection, I know none, to Mr. Clark’s having the appointment. A. LINCOLN Sep. 25. 1861 Lincoln’s endorsement appears on a letter from A.H. Clark, Washington, September 25, 1861:“ In March last I was recommended for the Consulship [...]
PENSACOLA, April 13, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War: Re-enforcements thrown into Fort Pickens last night by small boats from the outside. The movement could not even be seen from our side, but was discovered by a small reconnoitering boat. BRAXTON BRAGG, Brigadier General.
To Lyman Trumbull SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Dec. 24, 1860 Hon. Lyman Trumbull– My dear Sir. I expect to be able to offer Mr. Blair a place in the cabinet; but I can not, as yet, be committed on the matter, to any extent whatever. Despatches have come here two days in succession, that the Forts in [...]
Private & Confidential SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Dec. 10. 1860 Hon. L. Trumbull. My Dear Sir: Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again. The dangerous ground—that into which some of our friends have a hankering to run—is Pop. [...]
Private SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec 8, 1860. Hon. Lyman Trumbull, My Dear Sir: Yours of the 2nd is received. I regret exceedingly the anxiety of our friends in New York, of whom you write; but it seems to me the sentiment in that state which sent a united delegation to Chicago in favor of Gov. Seward [...]
SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Sep 22, 1860. MRS. M. J. GREEN My dear Madam: Your kind congratulatory letter, of August, was received in due course, and should have been answered sooner. The truth is I have never corresponded much with ladies; and hence I postpone writing letters to them, as a business which I do not understand. [...]
Springfield, Ills. June 5, 1860 Hon. L. Trumbull My dear Sir: Yours of May 31, inclosing Judge Read’s letter, is received. I see by the papers this morning, that Mr. Fillmore refuses to go with us. What do the New-Yorkers at Washington think of this? Gov. Reeder was here last evening direct from Pennsylvania. He [...]
To Leonard Swett Springfield, Ills. May 30, 1860. Hon. L. Swett. My dear Sir: Your letter written to go to New York is long, but substantially right I believe. You heard Weed conversed with me, and you now have Putnam’s letters. It can not have failed to strike you that these men ask [...]
Springfield, Ills., March 16, 1860 Dear Delahay: I have just returned from the East. Before leaving I received your letter of Feb. 6; and on my return I find those of the 17th and 19th with Gen’l Lane’s note inclosed in one of them. I sincerely wish you could be elected one of the first [...]
Springfield, Ills., March 14, 1860 Mess. Beers and Mansfield. Gentlemen: Your request to take a photographic likeness of me, while in your city, was duly received; but at a time when my arrangements were so made that I could not call upon you before leaving. I would have written sooner, but the matter passed out [...]
February 8, 1860. Dear Mr. Dummer: I have examined and considered the general proposition in your letter accompanying copy of contract in relation to Lard tubs, apparatus &c., and in my opinion the Messrs H. C. Gadsen and Co. will, as a general proposition, have a right to continue to use the Tubs, apparatus &c [...]
Springfield Feb. 14, 1860. Messrs. O. P. Hall & I or J. H. Fullininder. Gentlemen: Your letter in which, among other things, you ask what I meant when I said this “Union could not stand half slave and half free”; and also what I meant when I said “a house divided against itself could [...]
This is one of many forged Lincoln documents that can be found online. The House Divided website goes into detail on a blog post titled, We Got Punked, Lincoln Forgery-Style. For now, I am leaving this up, with the text crossed out, so that searching on the text might come across this post and realize [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Nov. 26, 1858. Dr. B. C. Lundy: My dear Sir: Your kind letter with enclosure is received, and for which I thank you. It being my own judgement that the fight must go on, it affords me great pleasure to learn that our friends are nowhere dispirited. There will be another “blow up” in [...]
SPRINGFIELD June 23, 1858. John L. Scripps, Esq. [1] My dear Sir: Your kind note of yesterday is duly received. I am much flattered by the estimate you place on my late speech; and yet I am much mortified that any part of it should be construed so differently from any thing intended by me. [...]
SPRINGFIELD, June 7, 1856 Hon. Lyman Trumbull My dear Sir: The news of Buchanan’s nomination came yesterday; and a good many Whigs, of conservative feelings, and slight pro-slavery proclivities, withal, are inclining to go for him, and will do it, unless the Anti-Nebraska nomination shall be such as to divert them. The man to effect [...]
SPRINGFIELD, August 11, 1855. Mr. Owen Lovejoy, My dear Sir: Yours of the 7th. was received the day before yesterday. Not even you are more anxious to prevent the extension of slavery than I. And yet the political atmosphere is such, just now, that I fear to do anything, lest I do wrong. Know Nothingism [...]