February 09, 1848

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            <date value='1848-02-09'>Wednesday, February 9, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to invitation to attend Taylor meeting at Philadelphia on
            22d. "It will not be convenient for me to attend, yet . . . I am decidedly in favor of
            Gen. Taylor." His selection will probably be pleasing to Whigs of Illinois, he states,
            for at constitutional convention last summer more than 70 members signed endorsement of
            him as their favored candidate.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A456' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Taylor
                  Committee</xref>, 9 February 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:449-50.</bibl>
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