Lincoln writes five brief letters on politics. "It all looks very favorable to our success," he tells A. G. Henry of Oregon. "No one, this side of the mountains, pretends that any ticket can be elected by the People, unless it be ours." Abraham Lincoln to Anson G. Henry, 22 September 1860, CW, 4:118; Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. M. J. Green, 22 September 1860, CW, 4:118; Abraham Lincoln to Charles C. Nott, 22 September 1860, CW, 4:118-19; Abraham Lincoln to G. Yoke Tams, 22 September 1860, CW, 4:119; Abraham Lincoln to John Van Dyke, 22 September 1860, CW, 4:119-20.