Lincoln writes Lyman Trumbull to ask him to serve notice on party to law suit. "What think you of the probable 'rumpus' among the democracy over the Kansas constitution? I think the Republicans should stand clear of it. In their view both the President and Douglas are wrong; and they should not espouse the cause of either, because they may consider the other a little farther wrong of the two." Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, 30 November 1857, CW, 2:427-28.