Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1858

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    Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1858, Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html. .
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    Transcribed by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
    Adapted by Ben Lyman, Dickinson College
    The following transcript has been adapted from the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress.

    Senate Chamber

    June 12 -- 1858.

    My Dear Sir,

    I regret not to be able to be at the Convention next Wednesday, but we have just recd a message from the President making it doubtful whether we will be able to adjourn on Tuesday, & you know the most important business is done just at the close of the session--

    Brooks of Quincy, Sweat of Peoria, & Hunt of Jacksonville are all nominated for re-appointment-- Dixon is removed and Wm L. Dougherty appointed Marshall in his place. S. S. Brooks P. M. at Cari has also been removed & L. G. Faxon nominated in his place--

    The administration clearly do not bear much to Douglas, yet they seem to me to be pursuing a sort of halfway policy-- The action at Springfield, which I learned by telegraph from you shows, I think, that the cry "we are all Democrats" will no longer win-- I think the less new resolutions our friends adopt probably the best -- our platform is a good one, & perhaps covers enough. It will not do, of course to get mixed up with the free negro question, & in my judgment it will be best to say nothing about the admission or non-admission of any more slave states. It will be time enough to decide that question when it arises, which it never will, if Republican principles prevail & slavery is kept out of the territories-- However I need not make suggestions to you, who understand all these matters & I doubt not will exert your influence to have them prudently managed--

    Yours truly

    Lyman Trumbull

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