| Thursday, March 3, 1859.Springfield,
IL. | Lincoln writes advice to Hayden Keeling, client. "I
do not think there is the least use of doing any more with the law suit. I not
only do not think you are sure to gain it, but I do think you are sure to lose
it. Therefore the sooner it ends the better." Abraham
Lincoln to Hayden Keeling, 3 March 1859, CW, 3:371. |