Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates, October 31, 1854

    Source citation
    To Richard Yates, November 1 [October 31], 1854, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 2: 284-285, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
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    Transcribed by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
    Adapted by John Osborne, Dickinson College
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    Naples, Ill., November 1 [October 31], 1854.
    Dear Yates:
    I am on my way to Quincy to speak for our old friend Archie Williams. On my way down I heard at Jacksonville a story which may harm you if not averted---namely, that you have been a Know-Nothing. I suggest that you get a denial---something like the inclosed draft which I have made---into the hands of a safe man in each precinct.
     
    The day before election will do. Yours, as ever,
     
    A. LINCOLN.
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