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February 09, 1855

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Friday, February 9, 1855.
 Springfield, IL.

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Lincoln writes Washburne explaining how Trumbull's 5 votes triumphed over Lincoln's 44. "It was Govr. Matteson's work. . . . I regret my defeat moderately, but I am not nervous about it. I could have headed off every combination and been elected, had it not been for Matteson's double game—and his defeat now gives me more pleasure than my own gives me pain. On the whole, it is perhaps as well for our general cause that Trumbull is elected." Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, 9 February 1855, CW, 2:304-6. 

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Lincoln writes Washburne explaining how Trumbull's 5 votes triumphed 
over Lincoln's 44. "It was Govr. Matteson's work. . . . I regret my 
defeat moderately, but I am not nervous about it. I could have headed 
off every combination and been elected, had it not been for 
Matteson's double game&#8212;and his defeat now gives me more 
pleasure than my own gives me pain. On the whole, it is perhaps as 
well for our general cause that Trumbull is elected."
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