February 04, 1861

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            <date value='1861-02-04'>Monday, February 4, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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President-elect receives delegation from Pennsylvania, which presses 
claims of former Gov. Andrew H. Reeder (Kansas Terr.), should Sen. 
Cameron (Pa.) withdraw from cabinet scramble.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 5 February 1861.</bibl>
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Writes Thurlow Weed, New York political leader and supporter of Sen. 
Seward (N.Y.): "My name <uLine>must</uLine> not be used in the 
Senatorial [Greeley] election, in favor of, or against any one."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A296' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 4 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:185-86.</bibl>
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Limits visiting hours from 3:30 until 5 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 4 February 1861.</bibl>
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Suspends cabinet negotiations and intends to do so until he arrives 
in Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 60.</bibl>
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Accepts invitation of New York Legislature to pass through state en 
route to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A295' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan</xref>, 4 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:185.</bibl>
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