Letter To J. C. Lee
(Confidential.)
Springfield, Illinois, October 24, 1860.
Dear Sir: Yours of the 14th was received some days ago, and should have been answered sooner.
I never gave fifty dollars, nor one dollar, nor one cent, for the object you mention, or any such object.
I once subscribed twenty-five dollars, to be paid whenever Judge Logan would decide it was necessary to enable the people of Kansas to defend themselves against any force coming against them from without the Territory, and not by authority of the United States. Logan never made the decision, and I never paid a dollar on the subscription. The whole of this can be seen in the files of the “Illinois Journal,” since the first of June last.
Yours truly,
A. Lincoln