Lincoln answers Wilkinson: "I know of no effort to unite the Reps. & Buc. men, and believe there is none. Of course the Republicans do not try to keep the common enemy from dividing; but, so far as I know, or believe, they will not unite with either branch of the division." Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Wilkinson, 10 June 1858, CW, 2:458.

United States v. Louis Reinbach, indictment for stealing from mails, McClernand, Lincoln & Herndon for defense, is tried by jury, but arguments are not concluded. Record.