GDG- I do not think I should meddle as a volunteer

[James Cameron]

<< Your note and brief, about the California Land Claim, are received. The
question presented is a property question, with which I do not think I
should meddle as a volunteer. It will save me labor, therefore, if you will
first point me to the law which assigns any duty to the President in the
case. This done, next send me a reference to the treaty, and all the
statutory law which bears upon the case. Yours truly A LINCOLN  >>

Freely translated,...."Not on your life, unless you can show me where it 
says I have to!"

I'm betting the last thing Lincoln needed was to get involved in one of 
Sickles' land schemes.

Jim Cameron