Sunday,
October 14, 1860.Springfield,
IL. | Lincoln and his wife Mary host a dinner
party at their home for several guests, including Thomas Corwin, a Republican
congressman from Ohio and former governor of that state, and Lyman Trumbull, a
United States senator from Illinois. Later in the evening, David Davis, judge
of Illinois's eighth judicial circuit, and Illinois Secretary of State Ozias M.
Hatch pay a visit to the Lincoln home as well. Davis wrote to his wife the
following day and offered his impressions of his evening at the Lincolns':
"Mrs. Lincoln seemed in high feather. Mr. Lincoln looked as if he had a heavy
responsibility resting on him. The cares & responsibility of office will
wear on him." Regarding Mary Lincoln, Davis added, "I don't think she would
ever mesmerise any one. I am in hopes that she will not give her husband any
trouble." David Davis to Sarah W. Davis, 15 October 1860, David Davis
Family Papers, folder B-12, IHi, Springfield, IL; Josiah Morrow, ed.,
Life and Speeches of Thomas Corwin, Orator, Lawyer, and
Statesman (Cincinnati, OH: W. H. Anderson & Co., 1896), 64-65;
United States Biographical Dictionary: Illinois Volume (Chicago:
American Biographical Publishing, 1876), 14; Portrait and Biographical
Album of McLean County, Ill. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), 188;
Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 20 November 1856,
2:2; Willard L. King, Lincoln's Manager David Davis (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1960), 135; David Davis to Sarah W. Davis, 15
October 1860, David Davis Family Papers, folder B-12, IHi, Springfield,
IL. |