Abraham Lincoln to Charles H. Ray, June 27, 1858

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Source citation:

Abraham Lincoln to Charles H. Ray, June 27, 1858, Papers of Abraham Lincoln at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham

Recipient:

Ray, Charles Henry

Type:

Letter

Date Certainty:

Exact

Transcriber:

Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College

Transcription date:

04/01/2009

Transcription

The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

Springfield, June 27, 1858

Dr. C.H. Ray

My dear Sir,

How in God’s name do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune, as the enclosed cut from that paper of yesterday? Does Sheahan write them? How can you have failed to perceive that in this short paragraph you have completely answered all your own well put complaints of Greely [Greeley] and Sister Burlingame? What right have you to interfere in Indiana, more than they in Illinois? And what possible argument can be made why all Republicans shall stand out of Hon. John G. Davis’s way in his district in Indiana that can not be made why all Republicans in Illinois shall stand out of Hon. S.A. Douglas’s way? The part in larger type is plainly editorial, and your editorial at that, as you do not credit it to any other paper. I confess it astonishes me.

Yours truly, A. Lincoln.

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