"I am glad I made the late race," Lincoln writes to his old friend A. G. Henry. "It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." To Henry Asbury, E. A. Paine, and Anson Miller, political supporters, he writes encouragement. Abraham Lincoln to Anson G. Henry, 19 November 1858, CW, 3:339-40; Abraham Lincoln to Henry Asbury, 19 November 1858, CW, 3:339; Abraham Lincoln to Eleazar A. Paine, 19 November 1858, CW, 3:340; Abraham Lincoln to Anson S. Miller, 19 November 1858, CW, 3:340.