Abraham Lincoln to Henry Asbury, November 19, 1858

    Source citation
    Abraham Lincoln to Henry Asbury, November 19, 1858, Springfield, IL, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 3: 339, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
    Recipient (to)
    Asbury, Henry
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Ben Lyman, Dickinson College
    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

    Henry Asbury, Esq Springfield,

    My dear Sir Novr. 19, 1858

    Yours of the 13th. was received some days ago. The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even, one hundred defeats. Douglas had the ingenuity to be supported in the late contest both as the best means to break down, and to uphold the Slave interest. No ingenuity can keep those antagonistic elements in harmony long. Another explosion will soon come. Yours truly A. LINCOLN---

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