| Thursday, June 7, 1860.Springfield, IL.
| Springfield Republicans hold rally to celebrate Lincoln's
nomination, with procession in morning, speeches afternoon and evening, and
closing torchlight procession. Illinois State
Journal, 8 June 1860. Lincoln writes to William M.
Dickson, who is married to Mary Lincoln's cousin. Lincoln asks Dickson, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, to investigate a bill Lincoln received from the proprietors
of Cincinnati's Burnet House, where Lincoln stayed in September 1859, as a
guest of Ohio Republicans. Lincoln explains, "I . . . was . . . told the bill
'was settled' 'was all right' or words to that effect. . . . I can and will pay
it if it is right; but I do not wish to be 'diddled!['] Please do what you do
quietly, having no fuss about it." William M. Dickson to
Abraham Lincoln, 21 May 1860; Johnson & Saunders Co. to Abraham Lincoln, 5
June 1860, both in Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
Abraham Lincoln to William M.
Dickson, 7 June 1860, CW.
3:72-73. |