"My hope of Taylor's nomination is as high,—a little higher—than it was when you left," writes Lincoln to E. B. Washburne. ". . . My prayer is, that you . . . send us a good Taylor delegate from your circuit. Make Baker . . . help about it. He is a good hand to raise a breeze." He sends similar request to Archibald Williams of Quincy.Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, 30 April 1848, CW, 1:467; Abraham Lincoln to Archibald Williams, 30 April 1848, CW, 1:467-68.