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January 06, 1861

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Sunday, January 6, 1861.
 Springfield, IL.

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Early in morning Lincoln calls on former Lt. Gov. Gustave Koerner (Ill.), still in bed at hotel. Soon Lincoln returns with Norman B. Judd, Chicago Republican, to talk over appointment of Sen. Cameron (Pa.) to cabinet. Lincoln is "very much distressed." Koerner and Judd oppose appointment, but Lincoln seems to think it necessary. T. J. McCormack, ed., Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896, 2 vols. (Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1909), 2:114.

"Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln and Gov. Chase of Ohio" attend church service. Harry E. Pratt, Concerning Mr. Lincoln, in which Abraham Lincoln is Pictured as He Appeared to Letter Writers of his Time (Springfield, IL: 1944), 35. 

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         <p> Early in morning Lincoln calls on former Lt. Gov.
  Gustave Koerner (Ill.), still in bed at hotel. Soon Lincoln returns with Norman
  B. Judd, Chicago Republican, to talk over appointment of Sen. Cameron (Pa.) to
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         <p> "Mr. and
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Gov. Chase of Ohio" attend
  church service. <bibl default='NO'>Harry E. Pratt, <title>Concerning Mr. Lincoln, in which
  Abraham Lincoln is Pictured as He Appeared to Letter Writers of his
  Time</title> (Springfield, IL: 1944), 35.</bibl> 
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