GDG- Commencement of Lincoln's Administration

[jack]

This was a mistake. And not the first one today.
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From: "jack" <jlawrence at kc.rr.com>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: GDG- Commencement of Lincoln's Administration


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> 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.
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> ----- 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
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>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> 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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