June 09, 1864

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-09'>Thursday, June 9, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President grants audience to Elisha H. Allen, envoy
  and minister from Hawaii, and exchanges short speeches with him. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A851' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Elisha H. Allen</xref>, 9 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:383; Seward to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, 7
  June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with A. H. Markland, post
  office official with army, regarding postal service orders which
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> refuses to issue. <bibl default='NO'>Rice,
  227.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Replies to notification committee headed by former Gov.
  Dennison (Ohio): "I will neither conceal my gratification, nor restrain the
  expression of my gratitude, that the Union people, through their convention, in
  their continued effort to save, and advance the nation, have deemed me not
  unworthy to remain in my present position." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A850' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination</xref>, 9 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:380-83; Washington Star, 9 June
  1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> A day after the Republican Convention concluded in
  Baltimore, where the delegates re-nominated Lincoln for president, a committee
  delivers the news to President Lincoln. Lincoln also accepts the
  congratulations of the National Union League, and he remarks, "I have not
  permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country;
  but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who
  remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses when crossing
  streams.'" <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A852' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Delegation from the National Union League</xref>, 9 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:383-84; <title>Evening
  Star</title> (Washington, D. C.), 9 June 1864, 2:4, <title>The New York
  Times</title> (NY), 10 June 1864, 1:6.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives congratulations
  of Philadelphia delegation to recent convention in Baltimore. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 160.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Responds to serenade by Ohio delegation and Capt. A. Menter's American Cornet
  Band. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 June 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with John
  Hay just before bedtime about message from Gen. Rosecrans concerning conspiracy
  to overthrow government. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
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