Thursday, August 23, 1860.Springfield, IL.
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Still uneasy about New York "Herald" article, Lincoln writes
Haycraft: "My only object was to assure you that I had not, as
represented by the Herald correspondent, charged you with an attempt
to inveigle me into Kentucky to do me violence. I believe no such
thing of you, or of Kentuckians generally; and I dislike to be
represented to them as slandering them in that way." He invites
Robert C. Schenck of Ohio to campaign in Illinois. "We really want you."
Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Haycraft, [23 August 1860], CW, 4:99; Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck, 23 August 1860, CW, 4:99-100. |