Lincoln receives a delegation that traveled from Chicago to Springfield to personally inform Lincoln that the Republican Convention selected him to be the party's candidate for President of the United States. Lincoln remarks, "[I am] deeply, and even painfully sensible of the great responsibility which is inseparable from this high honor—a responsibility which I could almost wish had fallen upon some one of the far more eminent men and experienced statesmen whose distinguished names were before the Convention." Reply to Committee of the Republican National Convention, 19 May 1860, CW, 4:51; Illinois Daily State Journal (Springfield), 21 May 1860, 2:1; New York Daily Tribune, 25 May 1860, 6:4-5.