GDG- Commencement of Lincoln's Administration

[jack]

We are holding a candlelight vigil at Barley's on November 19th. I going to 
recite the address backwards. Wish you could be there. You could wear the 
stovepipe hat and the beard.
Hold on to that case of Clorado beer.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Lawrence" <denlaw at fone.net>
To: <gettysburg at gdg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:33 AM
Subject: GDG- Commencement of Lincoln's Administration


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Saturday, November 2, 1839.
> Springfield, IL.
>
> John T. Stuart leaves to take seat in Congress. Lincoln signalizes his 
> partner's departure for Washington by entering in firm's fee book, 
> "Commencement of Lincoln's Administration." Stuart & Lincoln fee book.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> Lincoln's partner, John T. Stuart, had narrowly defeated popular Democrat 
> Stephen A. Douglas in the 1838 congressional election. Stuart won by a 
> margin of 36 votes out of a total of 36,495 cast. In Washington more than 
> a year later, Stuart still feared that Douglas might contest the election. 
> Young Mr. Lincoln reported to his friend on the political scene back home 
> in Springfield.
>
> Springfield, November 14, 1839
> Dear Stuart:
>
> I have been to the Secretary's office within the last hour; and find 
> things precisely as you left them - no new arrivals of returns on either 
> side. Douglas has not been here since you left. A report is in circulation 
> here now, that he has abandoned the idea of going to Washington; though 
> the report does not come in a very authentic form, so far as I can learn. 
> Though, by the way speaking of authenticity, you know that if we had heard 
> Douglas say that he had abandoned the contest, it would not be very 
> authentic. There is no news here. Noah, I still think will be elected very 
> easily. I am afraid of our race for Representative. Dr. Knapp has become a 
> candidate; and I fear the few votes he will get will be taken from us. 
> Also, someone has been tampering with old Esquire Wycoff, and induced him 
> to send in his name to be announced as a candidate. Francis refused to 
> announce him without seeing him, and now I suppose there is to be a fuss 
> about it. I have been so busy that I have not seen Mrs. Stuart since you 
> left, though I understand she wrote you by today's mail, which will inform 
> you more about her than I could. The very moment a speaker is elected 
> write me who he is. Your friend as ever
>
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> STUART, John Todd, (1807 - 1885)
>
> STUART, John Todd, a Representative from Illinois; born near Lexington, 
> Ky., November 10, 1807; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., 
> in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced 
> practice in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill.; subsequently became a law 
> partner of Abraham Lincoln; major in the Black Hawk War in 1832; member of 
> the State house of representatives 1832-1836; unsuccessful candidate for 
> election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Whig to the 
> Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); 
> was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; member of the State senate 
> 1848-1852; was the unsuccessful Constitutional-Union candidate for 
> Governor of Illinois in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth 
> Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); resumed the practice of law; died 
> in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., November 23, 1885; interment in Oak 
> Ridge Cemetery
>
>
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