Lincoln replies to invitation to attend Taylor meeting at Philadelphia on 22d. "It will not be convenient for me to attend, yet . . . I am decidedly in favor of Gen. Taylor." His selection will probably be pleasing to Whigs of Illinois, he states, for at constitutional convention last summer more than 70 members signed endorsement of him as their favored candidate.Abraham Lincoln to Taylor Committee, 9 February 1848, CW, 1:449-50.