14 25 22278 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/fb58936ae38a7f45ba1b9283f5687e68.pdf 3b8faf6a82226b4dc4dbacd33fec4a18 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Ills. Nov. 26. 1860 Hon. C. W. Upham. My Dear Sir. I thank you for your letter of cordial congratulation. I assure you, I most highly prize the good opinion of yourself and family, and therefore was much delighted at the kind words you were pleased to employ towards me. I have made speeches in 72 counties of the State - really not caring to have the office of Governor, for while I plead to the weakness (if it be such) of ambition, yet that is not an office to my taste, and I think I neither look, nor feel Governorish, (if I may coin a word). I however desired to be elected upon the principles of the Republican party, which you truly say stands "just where we put it in the Nebraska fight in the 33rd Congress," - My majority is highly gratifying as my vote is several thousand ahead of Lincoln, and I lead the whole ticket. I shall therefore try to show myself as much worthy of such confidence as my <hr /> humble efforts will allow. Our great delight is in the election of Lincoln, and in the high estimate you have formed of him I am sure you have not overrated him. He is as you say "a good, sound, old fashioned Henry Clay Whig". He is a clear and deep thinker, and although so modest as to be retiring, yet I believe will be, and would have been even while unknown to fame, the center of almost any circle of our greatest men into which he might have been thrown. But he is also one of the most loveable of men, a pure hearted and right minded man, gentle as a child and yet brave as old Hickory. I believe Lincoln will conciliate the South without even the slightest concession of principle. I design going to Washington immediately after the adjournment of our Legislature, which I think will be about the 1st March. I should be happy to meet you there. I know not how much influence I may have with Mr Lincoln, for although for many years warm friends, I have not been with <hr /> him much lately. There are two persons, and only two, to whom I have any particular desire places in his cabinet should be tendered, and if you will allow me to be frank, you are one of those persons. I think it probable you desire no such place, and I know that hundreds will desire it, who are not worthy of it. I not only want Mr Lincoln to have able men as his advisers, but above all things, I want men who will be his friends. His, is a place, which will require the offices of true friendship. The evil of the times alas! is the selfishness, the corruption and the duplicity of our men "at the head of affairs". Please remember me to Mrs Upham. Tell her that I still have the verses on old Chanticleer. Miss Sarah is now a full grown young woman, tell her when she gets married, she must come to the prairie land to try her fortune. Sincerely Yours Richd. Yates <hr /> Richard Yates Nov. 26. 1860 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 35, Folder 17 (November 26, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to C. W. Upham Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-11-26 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514188 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Ills. Nov. 26. 1860 Hon. C. W. Upham. My Dear Sir. I thank you for your letter of cordial congratulation. I assure you, I most highly prize the good opinion of yourself and family, and therefore was much delighted at the kind words you were pleased to employ towards me. I have made speeches in 72 counties of the State - really not caring to have the office of Governor, for while I plead to the weakness (if it be such) of ambition, yet that is not an office to my taste, and I think I neither look, nor feel Governorish, (if I may coin a word). I however desired to be elected upon the principles of the Republican party, which you truly say stands "just where we put it in the Nebraska fight in the 33rd Congress," - My majority is highly gratifying as my vote is several thousand ahead of Lincoln, and I lead the whole ticket. I shall therefore try to show myself as much worthy of such confidence as my <hr /> humble efforts will allow. Our great delight is in the election of Lincoln, and in the high estimate you have formed of him I am sure you have not overrated him. He is as you say "a good, sound, old fashioned Henry Clay Whig". He is a clear and deep thinker, and although so modest as to be retiring, yet I believe will be, and would have been even while unknown to fame, the center of almost any circle of our greatest men into which he might have been thrown. But he is also one of the most loveable of men, a pure hearted and right minded man, gentle as a child and yet brave as old Hickory. I believe Lincoln will conciliate the South without even the slightest concession of principle. I design going to Washington immediately after the adjournment of our Legislature, which I think will be about the 1st March. I should be happy to meet you there. I know not how much influence I may have with Mr Lincoln, for although for many years warm friends, I have not been with <hr /> him much lately. There are two persons, and only two, to whom I have any particular desire places in his cabinet should be tendered, and if you will allow me to be frank, you are one of those persons. I think it probable you desire no such place, and I know that hundreds will desire it, who are not worthy of it. I not only want Mr Lincoln to have able men as his advisers, but above all things, I want men who will be his friends. His, is a place, which will require the offices of true friendship. The evil of the times alas! is the selfishness, the corruption and the duplicity of our men "at the head of affairs". Please remember me to Mrs Upham. Tell her that I still have the verses on old Chanticleer. Miss Sarah is now a full grown young woman, tell her when she gets married, she must come to the prairie land to try her fortune. Sincerely Yours Richd. Yates <hr /> Richard Yates Nov. 26. 1860 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/b3947cf706ca0f8044145bc1b5a810f9.pdf 9bbc75955712368a6db927f704bd3f5a Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Pleasant Plains San Co Nov 26/60 Mr. Richard Yates Dear Sir Your note of Nov. 22d is received and in answer to the same I would say that after receiving your Letter preceding this that I went to see Mr. Workman Informing him that I would take half the amount and and for him to make a Deed to you for the property. I could not succeed with the proposition and he then proposed to pay me half the principal and claimed that that was all he had proposed to Do after considering upon the matter and knowing the case a bad one I proposed to do it if you would approve the same he agreed to Do that and I was to meet him at pleasant plains and receive the money and I was to write to you for your acceptance or rejection. I met him as agreed and he only had Thirty Eight Dollars - Fifty cents over one half and agreed to execute the Deed and have the ballance of the money in <hr /> a few Days. and I was to meet him with an answer from you I wrote to you Informing you what I have Done provided you ratified it and the money I had received. and for you to answer Immediately and I have received nothing from you until this and I know not but that he is in Kansas by this time as he talked of going their I have not seen him at Least for over three months and can tell you nothing about him Yours Very Respectfully James W. Beckman James W. Bechman Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James W. Beckman to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-11-26 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514230 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Pleasant Plains San Co Nov 26/60 Mr. Richard Yates Dear Sir Your note of Nov. 22d is received and in answer to the same I would say that after receiving your Letter preceding this that I went to see Mr. Workman Informing him that I would take half the amount and and for him to make a Deed to you for the property. I could not succeed with the proposition and he then proposed to pay me half the principal and claimed that that was all he had proposed to Do after considering upon the matter and knowing the case a bad one I proposed to do it if you would approve the same he agreed to Do that and I was to meet him at pleasant plains and receive the money and I was to write to you for your acceptance or rejection. I met him as agreed and he only had Thirty Eight Dollars - Fifty cents over one half and agreed to execute the Deed and have the ballance of the money in <hr /> a few Days. and I was to meet him with an answer from you I wrote to you Informing you what I have Done provided you ratified it and the money I had received. and for you to answer Immediately and I have received nothing from you until this and I know not but that he is in Kansas by this time as he talked of going their I have not seen him at Least for over three months and can tell you nothing about him Yours Very Respectfully James W. Beckman James W. Bechman Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/f97ade7748af90d70d17d986d3fffd46.pdf 811d9fb22e0c067620bce289b93ae63b Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Concord Dec 1/60 Mr. Richard Yates Jacksonville Dear Sir I would like to get the Registers Office at St Peters Minnesota. I think it would be worth from six to eight thousand dollars per year. If you will get it for me I will give you ¼ of the proffeit for your trouble. Will you please write me on the subject if you will try for it I will do as I agree certain I have put out 18 thousand acres of Currents this fall <hr /> in Minnesota and next fall will be a good time to put out more. Do you want one thousand dollars untill next Augst with realestate security at 10 per cent I would want it paid when due or one year at 12 per cent Please let me here from you have you any more County Bonds Respectfully yours Geo Wilson Concord Lake Co Ohio Can you use a draft on Chicago The land offered at St Peters is one of the last in the <hr /> Geo. Wilson Concord O. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Wilson to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514231 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Concord Dec 1/60 Mr. Richard Yates Jacksonville Dear Sir I would like to get the Registers Office at St Peters Minnesota. I think it would be worth from six to eight thousand dollars per year. If you will get it for me I will give you ¼ of the proffeit for your trouble. Will you please write me on the subject if you will try for it I will do as I agree certain I have put out 18 thousand acres of Currents this fall <hr /> in Minnesota and next fall will be a good time to put out more. Do you want one thousand dollars untill next Augst with realestate security at 10 per cent I would want it paid when due or one year at 12 per cent Please let me here from you have you any more County Bonds Respectfully yours Geo Wilson Concord Lake Co Ohio Can you use a draft on Chicago The land offered at St Peters is one of the last in the <hr /> Geo. Wilson Concord O. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/ae5567abbf4e0b91a27f02ef93e40830.pdf 0b6aaf34e546b801ee9f20d3801f467c Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Galena 3 Dec 1860 Dear friend Your kind favor of Nov 22nd I have with great interest noted its contents. You speak of your ambition almost deprecatingly as though it was a weakness. I fear their is not enough ambition in most men & women also; for without a laudable and virtuous aspiration or ambition there has been but very little ever accomplished or, ever will be, for the present and eternal well being of the human family, for man amounts to but little in this world & still less I think in the world to come who is not the representative of some great & good principle. Who does not feel anxious to give out something from within himself to benefit & ameliorate the woes and sufferings of humanity & who is not solicitous to leave the world better by his life & exertions than he found it---so to cultivate the Divine essence within him that all he does shall bear the image of the Heavenly---always remembering that man in the abstract is man in the [conente?]---with my principles are intimately connected with men---a good man will seek to ally himself with good principles---for a “good [tree?] cannot bring forth evil fruit” &c. I rejoice with you that that disturber of the country Douglas is finally & I trust forever politically disposed of---that he will in the future remain as a lasting monument---to point the youth of the country to us as an example of unholy ambition to be shunned---but excuse this homily. you must blame yourself partly for it; you were doubtless right in your judgement in regard to the issues of the Canvass. Your majority would I think have been much [larger?] by the other course <hr /> I do most sincerely regret your want of time in relation to the mining matters. ere the time arrives that you speak of I greatly fear the golden opportunity will have passed and the money by corrupt practices, absorbed by the peculating political Banditti of Polititions who hover around the Treasury as vultures over the Carcass. the case is one of the easy solution---the facts are few, simple & clear---Act of Congress---Regulations of War [Dept?] & [Suprdts?] returns---this is all---but excuse this re-iteration of this question. How would it do (in order to settle the matter definitely I dispose of it & free it from Legislative influence & quiet the public mind), to recommend the Legislature to submit the contract & agreement with the Ills C R.R. Co & the state to a direct vote of the people---thus make it organic & get it out of the arena of politics. There is an intensity of feeling in the minds of the people about this most important state question. I trust that you will allow me to plead in extenuation of my gratuitous & undigested advise on grave matters of state or National policy. Our old personal relations---had it not been for those old days of yore---I should not have ventured any word of counsel. It was all prompted by an over anxious desire for your triumphant success. I acknowledge its inappropriatness under ordinary circumstances its indelicacy. Of course I can have, from my limited point of observation only crude & partial glimpses of the great and propelling forces which are indispensable to give direction & success to the mighty & benificent Measures of Government which shall in their far reaching forecast bless the oncoming ages of mankind & in their equity justice & benignity shall cheer & bless the disappearing myriads of our <hr /> race who are unwinding so fast this mortal coil & going to other spheres. I know but little of the necessary mechanisms & machinery whether complex or simple that is requisite to be kept oiled & [grooved?] in such perfect adjustment that there shall be no friction: principles of right & righteousness never vary, like God they are unchangeable. but enough of moralities for this [time?]. What I said to you in my letter of & about myself did not have any reference to an office from the President---for I would not do, what, I suppose would be a “sine qua non” in order to obtain it for the best office in the gift of the [P ?]. Would you believe it!! some of the office seekers have been perambulating I hardly know how many states in search of those of like calibre, modesty &, manhood of themselves to recommend them to the appointing power!!! Men of unbound self esteem---they were a dead weight to the party. they remind one of the last hound in at the death. They bay the loudest---or like the candidates in Rome for consulate of Imperial honors---exhibiting themselves and recounting their own exploits by flood & field. This is a part of the political programme I never liked---though it is I suppose a necessity of the times. I had reference to the Office of Canal Trustee. I felt that I could perform all the duties pertaining to the Office so as to bring no discredit upon the appointing power. It is my desire to move to Chicago but am financially restrained. I have heard for months that the present incumbent would not be reappointed on account of past matters. Leavit &c I know that L, said it would never do to re appoint. I stated that I knew nothing of your engagements & did not wish to be in the way---but if entirely free & have the disposition it would come most acceptably. My lands are unproductive <hr /> & I have to borrow money to pay taxes. I am really pleased to find that you do properly appreciate the labors & efforts of Denio. I believe the Republican party are more indebted to him for the majority in both branches of the Legislature than to any other one man. I do not [illegible] this that he was the ablest or greatest man by [illegible] but he was just adapted to the masses in the closely contested districts in which he labored & that proved you & L right in sending him there. I do really think he should be Marshall. I am well aware that the whole [illegible] crew of office seekers around here are opposed most bitterly to him. he was an original Lincoln man whilst every one of them were uncompromising Sewardites & Luddites. I do not much expect to be able to visit Springfield this winter. I have not seen or heard from Denio since I wrote to you. Last spring you wrote to me of a man who would aid you. I know him well---he would at any time help you out if [thereby?] he could help himself in Mark this now---he too is after office. I cannot close this without thanking you for myself---my family, my friends & for every body for very many passages in your speech at Springfield. I saw only an extract ---send me a copy & also one to my son Edward Tomlin St Paul Minnesota. he knows & loves you. A thousand thanks my old & kind friend for your many and enduring assurances of friendship. they are all feelingly reciprocated with a much larger rate of interist than I would think of paying in specie If you find in this aught ( as doubtless you will) that is violative of good man manners or good any thing---please excuse it. this is miserable paper to write on. All join in love to you & yours Write soon Allan Tomlin. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allan Tomlin to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514229 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Galena 3 Dec 1860 Dear friend Your kind favor of Nov 22nd I have with great interest noted its contents. You speak of your ambition almost deprecatingly as though it was a weakness. I fear their is not enough ambition in most men & women also; for without a laudable and virtuous aspiration or ambition there has been but very little ever accomplished or, ever will be, for the present and eternal well being of the human family, for man amounts to but little in this world & still less I think in the world to come who is not the representative of some great & good principle. Who does not feel anxious to give out something from within himself to benefit & ameliorate the woes and sufferings of humanity & who is not solicitous to leave the world better by his life & exertions than he found it---so to cultivate the Divine essence within him that all he does shall bear the image of the Heavenly---always remembering that man in the abstract is man in the [conente?]---with my principles are intimately connected with men---a good man will seek to ally himself with good principles---for a “good [tree?] cannot bring forth evil fruit” &c. I rejoice with you that that disturber of the country Douglas is finally & I trust forever politically disposed of---that he will in the future remain as a lasting monument---to point the youth of the country to us as an example of unholy ambition to be shunned---but excuse this homily. you must blame yourself partly for it; you were doubtless right in your judgement in regard to the issues of the Canvass. Your majority would I think have been much [larger?] by the other course <hr /> I do most sincerely regret your want of time in relation to the mining matters. ere the time arrives that you speak of I greatly fear the golden opportunity will have passed and the money by corrupt practices, absorbed by the peculating political Banditti of Polititions who hover around the Treasury as vultures over the Carcass. the case is one of the easy solution---the facts are few, simple & clear---Act of Congress---Regulations of War [Dept?] & [Suprdts?] returns---this is all---but excuse this re-iteration of this question. How would it do (in order to settle the matter definitely I dispose of it & free it from Legislative influence & quiet the public mind), to recommend the Legislature to submit the contract & agreement with the Ills C R.R. Co & the state to a direct vote of the people---thus make it organic & get it out of the arena of politics. There is an intensity of feeling in the minds of the people about this most important state question. I trust that you will allow me to plead in extenuation of my gratuitous & undigested advise on grave matters of state or National policy. Our old personal relations---had it not been for those old days of yore---I should not have ventured any word of counsel. It was all prompted by an over anxious desire for your triumphant success. I acknowledge its inappropriatness under ordinary circumstances its indelicacy. Of course I can have, from my limited point of observation only crude & partial glimpses of the great and propelling forces which are indispensable to give direction & success to the mighty & benificent Measures of Government which shall in their far reaching forecast bless the oncoming ages of mankind & in their equity justice & benignity shall cheer & bless the disappearing myriads of our <hr /> race who are unwinding so fast this mortal coil & going to other spheres. I know but little of the necessary mechanisms & machinery whether complex or simple that is requisite to be kept oiled & [grooved?] in such perfect adjustment that there shall be no friction: principles of right & righteousness never vary, like God they are unchangeable. but enough of moralities for this [time?]. What I said to you in my letter of & about myself did not have any reference to an office from the President---for I would not do, what, I suppose would be a “sine qua non” in order to obtain it for the best office in the gift of the [P ?]. Would you believe it!! some of the office seekers have been perambulating I hardly know how many states in search of those of like calibre, modesty &, manhood of themselves to recommend them to the appointing power!!! Men of unbound self esteem---they were a dead weight to the party. they remind one of the last hound in at the death. They bay the loudest---or like the candidates in Rome for consulate of Imperial honors---exhibiting themselves and recounting their own exploits by flood & field. This is a part of the political programme I never liked---though it is I suppose a necessity of the times. I had reference to the Office of Canal Trustee. I felt that I could perform all the duties pertaining to the Office so as to bring no discredit upon the appointing power. It is my desire to move to Chicago but am financially restrained. I have heard for months that the present incumbent would not be reappointed on account of past matters. Leavit &c I know that L, said it would never do to re appoint. I stated that I knew nothing of your engagements & did not wish to be in the way---but if entirely free & have the disposition it would come most acceptably. My lands are unproductive <hr /> & I have to borrow money to pay taxes. I am really pleased to find that you do properly appreciate the labors & efforts of Denio. I believe the Republican party are more indebted to him for the majority in both branches of the Legislature than to any other one man. I do not [illegible] this that he was the ablest or greatest man by [illegible] but he was just adapted to the masses in the closely contested districts in which he labored & that proved you & L right in sending him there. I do really think he should be Marshall. I am well aware that the whole [illegible] crew of office seekers around here are opposed most bitterly to him. he was an original Lincoln man whilst every one of them were uncompromising Sewardites & Luddites. I do not much expect to be able to visit Springfield this winter. I have not seen or heard from Denio since I wrote to you. Last spring you wrote to me of a man who would aid you. I know him well---he would at any time help you out if [thereby?] he could help himself in Mark this now---he too is after office. I cannot close this without thanking you for myself---my family, my friends & for every body for very many passages in your speech at Springfield. I saw only an extract ---send me a copy & also one to my son Edward Tomlin St Paul Minnesota. he knows & loves you. A thousand thanks my old & kind friend for your many and enduring assurances of friendship. they are all feelingly reciprocated with a much larger rate of interist than I would think of paying in specie If you find in this aught ( as doubtless you will) that is violative of good man manners or good any thing---please excuse it. this is miserable paper to write on. All join in love to you & yours Write soon Allan Tomlin. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/26c87dd14df656ac6e9fc302627ec33c.pdf 03a5d3a352fad900b7e2450c7b7c7855 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Fairfield Ills Dec 3d 1860 Dear Gov. I thank you verry much for your frank and candid letter of the 26 ult. I new when you wrote it would be your honest convictions and contain good advice. Now let me say this, I am a Republican because Republicanism is just and right. If I can rise by fair means with these greate principles I shall be verry happy in my sucess. I have labored hard for the cause since the Repeal of the Missouri Comprimise, I quit the democracy because the quit freedom. If office had been my Aim I could have stayed with them and faired well, for many of my democratic friends implored me not to throw away the chances of sucess that I had before me. <hr /> I have labored with the Republicans until they have the power. Mr Lincoln is president and has favors to bestow. I know there are many applicants and many of them verry worthy members of our party. Many must be disappointed. but none should fail to consider the situation in which our worthy President is placed, and he who fails to do this can not be a good Rep. I know Mr Lincoln will do what he honestly thinks best. and with that I shall be content. I have not writen him a line since the Election and shall not because he has, no doubt, many more worthy correspondants than I could be. If I had thought at the time, that there would be so many applicants for the Martialship I should have said nothing about it. for I must say the position (outside of the money) is not one that suits my taste. If I could make any thing out of the Attorneyship for this district I had much rather have it <hr /> as I love my profession better than any other position in life. And Stern necesity is all in the world that makes me apply for any thing. I will be in Springfield about the holidays and there I will abide the advice of my friends as to what course to persue. If you and other friends think it will be of any advantage to me I can get the indorsement of Gov O.P. Morton Atty Gen. James G Jones and other distinguished men of Indiana. I thank you for sending me a copy of your "Wigwam" Speech. I have just read it with much pleasure. I must say (without flatery) that it is a most able production, and does credit to the governor of the Empire state of the West I am as ever, Your friend D. T. Linegar <hr /> D. T. Linegar Fairfield Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource D. T. Linegar to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514232 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Fairfield Ills Dec 3d 1860 Dear Gov. I thank you verry much for your frank and candid letter of the 26 ult. I new when you wrote it would be your honest convictions and contain good advice. Now let me say this, I am a Republican because Republicanism is just and right. If I can rise by fair means with these greate principles I shall be verry happy in my sucess. I have labored hard for the cause since the Repeal of the Missouri Comprimise, I quit the democracy because the quit freedom. If office had been my Aim I could have stayed with them and faired well, for many of my democratic friends implored me not to throw away the chances of sucess that I had before me. <hr /> I have labored with the Republicans until they have the power. Mr Lincoln is president and has favors to bestow. I know there are many applicants and many of them verry worthy members of our party. Many must be disappointed. but none should fail to consider the situation in which our worthy President is placed, and he who fails to do this can not be a good Rep. I know Mr Lincoln will do what he honestly thinks best. and with that I shall be content. I have not writen him a line since the Election and shall not because he has, no doubt, many more worthy correspondants than I could be. If I had thought at the time, that there would be so many applicants for the Martialship I should have said nothing about it. for I must say the position (outside of the money) is not one that suits my taste. If I could make any thing out of the Attorneyship for this district I had much rather have it <hr /> as I love my profession better than any other position in life. And Stern necesity is all in the world that makes me apply for any thing. I will be in Springfield about the holidays and there I will abide the advice of my friends as to what course to persue. If you and other friends think it will be of any advantage to me I can get the indorsement of Gov O.P. Morton Atty Gen. James G Jones and other distinguished men of Indiana. I thank you for sending me a copy of your "Wigwam" Speech. I have just read it with much pleasure. I must say (without flatery) that it is a most able production, and does credit to the governor of the Empire state of the West I am as ever, Your friend D. T. Linegar <hr /> D. T. Linegar Fairfield Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/6b916fd8949d3056507f7e1b607b7f12.pdf 19af0764701be9f89af97bc45620347d Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Ill Dec 6 1860 WC Flagg Esq Moro Dear Sir I cannot let the occasion pass without congratulating you on the success of our cause. You have been one of the efficient workers for this great result. Allow me also to thank you for the interest you have taken in my personal success and believ me Your friend Richd Yates Norman G. Flagg Moro, Illinois Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. C. Flagg to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-06 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514233 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Ill Dec 6 1860 WC Flagg Esq Moro Dear Sir I cannot let the occasion pass without congratulating you on the success of our cause. You have been one of the efficient workers for this great result. Allow me also to thank you for the interest you have taken in my personal success and believ me Your friend Richd Yates Norman G. Flagg Moro, Illinois Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/41ae59c6142cddd97ad4c22435ef610e.pdf d71d4d0cb0d6800fe6b5f51aea1cf2c4 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. THE CANTON REGISTER is published every Tuesday, at $1.50 a year, in advance; if not paid within three months, $1.75;not within six months, $2.00; and if not paid before the expiration of the year, $2.50. Canton, Ill., Dec 12 1860. Mr. Richard Yates to DAVISON & NICOLET, Dr., To subscription to The Canton Weekly Register, from Vol. 11 no. 39 to Vol. 12 No. 38, one year $2.00 Received payment Davison & Nicolet <hr /> Davidson & Nicolet Dec 12, '60 Rect $2.00 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Davison and Nicolet to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514234 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. THE CANTON REGISTER is published every Tuesday, at $1.50 a year, in advance; if not paid within three months, $1.75;not within six months, $2.00; and if not paid before the expiration of the year, $2.50. Canton, Ill., Dec 12 1860. Mr. Richard Yates to DAVISON & NICOLET, Dr., To subscription to The Canton Weekly Register, from Vol. 11 no. 39 to Vol. 12 No. 38, one year $2.00 Received payment Davison & Nicolet <hr /> Davidson & Nicolet Dec 12, '60 Rect $2.00 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2b1004d48f3937d6ee3bef647974b42a.pdf 9c986c56c9c2211ba1a706a17768124b Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Chilliothe, Ohio. 12 Dec. 1860. Hon. Richard Yates, Dear Sir, I received a few days since a copy of your Speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, on the 20. Nov. and beleiving that it came from your friendly hand, I write you a few lines in answer therein. I congratulate you on your election to the office of Governor of Illinois, and from my acquaintance with you when we were in Congress together, I feel assured that you will discharge the duties of that high office faithfully, and with a view to the good of your State, and the whole Country. I am not a Republican; but still adhere to my old Henry Clay - Whig principles, and have taken no active part in politicks for the last five years. My reasons for abstaining from any active efforts, are, and have been, that I could not approve of any organizations of political parties, that I thought were sectional in their character; whether they were at the South or North; believing <hr /> from the final disruption of the Whig Party, and their organizing on Know Nothings & Republicans, that such organizations would eventually bring about the present deplorable state of things. I am as one that most of my Whig friends, thought differently, and though I could not shape my judgment to suit their opinions, I have always in voting, aimed to select good Whigs, without regard to sectional organizations. I voted for Bell and Everett: at the same time, I have a high regard for Mr. Lincoln, and thought the Republican Party made a long step in advance of the ultra form criticism of the day, when they nominated him. I am not anti-slavery or pro slavery is my political opinion but entirely National; can I greatly deplore the present seeming [interferism?] of the two great sections of our country. We ought to live in peace and perpetual union, and it has always been my Opinion that this could only be done, by avoiding any interference by Word or deed with the domestick concerns of Our Neighbours in the South. "Abolition & Union cannot long Coexist." <hr /> And though I beleive that 19/20 of the Northern people do not desire to interfere with slavery in the Southern States, yet the South believes that a very large majority of the Northern People, do introfere with them, and indirectly promote insurrection and insubordination; and hence their almost-unanimous excited feeling about the present state of things. I think, and have so said to many of my Southern friends, that Mr. Lincoln would make a good & conservative President of the Nation & not of a party, even if he should disappoint the very ultra men amongst his supporters. But you are, and we all see, that we are apparently on the very brink of distinction as a Nation, and every good man now with, what can be done to prevent Desension, & preserve Our Republic? I am willing to concede any and every [Conoful?] thing, for the sake of Peace and to preserve the Union; now what ought to be done or can be done, Should be done speedily to prevent the first false steps of our excited Southern friends: Otherwise, all will be lost With my best wishes for <hr /> your health & prosperity, I am Your friend & servant, John L Taylor P. S. I am contentedly engaged in my professional business, as a Lawyer; and as I cannot change my Whig principles at my time of life, I do not expect to take any active part in politicks. [sideways on page] John. L. Taylor Chillcothe Dec 12 60 Congratulations on the Election of Government Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John L. Taylor to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514235 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Chilliothe, Ohio. 12 Dec. 1860. Hon. Richard Yates, Dear Sir, I received a few days since a copy of your Speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, on the 20. Nov. and beleiving that it came from your friendly hand, I write you a few lines in answer therein. I congratulate you on your election to the office of Governor of Illinois, and from my acquaintance with you when we were in Congress together, I feel assured that you will discharge the duties of that high office faithfully, and with a view to the good of your State, and the whole Country. I am not a Republican; but still adhere to my old Henry Clay - Whig principles, and have taken no active part in politicks for the last five years. My reasons for abstaining from any active efforts, are, and have been, that I could not approve of any organizations of political parties, that I thought were sectional in their character; whether they were at the South or North; believing <hr /> from the final disruption of the Whig Party, and their organizing on Know Nothings & Republicans, that such organizations would eventually bring about the present deplorable state of things. I am as one that most of my Whig friends, thought differently, and though I could not shape my judgment to suit their opinions, I have always in voting, aimed to select good Whigs, without regard to sectional organizations. I voted for Bell and Everett: at the same time, I have a high regard for Mr. Lincoln, and thought the Republican Party made a long step in advance of the ultra form criticism of the day, when they nominated him. I am not anti-slavery or pro slavery is my political opinion but entirely National; can I greatly deplore the present seeming [interferism?] of the two great sections of our country. We ought to live in peace and perpetual union, and it has always been my Opinion that this could only be done, by avoiding any interference by Word or deed with the domestick concerns of Our Neighbours in the South. "Abolition & Union cannot long Coexist." <hr /> And though I beleive that 19/20 of the Northern people do not desire to interfere with slavery in the Southern States, yet the South believes that a very large majority of the Northern People, do introfere with them, and indirectly promote insurrection and insubordination; and hence their almost-unanimous excited feeling about the present state of things. I think, and have so said to many of my Southern friends, that Mr. Lincoln would make a good & conservative President of the Nation & not of a party, even if he should disappoint the very ultra men amongst his supporters. But you are, and we all see, that we are apparently on the very brink of distinction as a Nation, and every good man now with, what can be done to prevent Desension, & preserve Our Republic? I am willing to concede any and every [Conoful?] thing, for the sake of Peace and to preserve the Union; now what ought to be done or can be done, Should be done speedily to prevent the first false steps of our excited Southern friends: Otherwise, all will be lost With my best wishes for <hr /> your health & prosperity, I am Your friend & servant, John L Taylor P. S. I am contentedly engaged in my professional business, as a Lawyer; and as I cannot change my Whig principles at my time of life, I do not expect to take any active part in politicks. [sideways on page] John. L. Taylor Chillcothe Dec 12 60 Congratulations on the Election of Government Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/f199b423e341d556be31988745a85c4b.pdf c01f117b39f5fbd9d8ee91713cc190e1 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. <pre> Senate Chamber, Dec. 19- 1860 </pre> Hon. Richard Yates, <pre> My Dear Sir; </pre> <pre> i wrote you a day or two since in great haste, I scarcely remember exactly what I perhaps may repeat ideas then suggested. </pre> It seems to me it would have an excellent effect on the public mind just now for you to take strong Union ground in your message I repudiate the idea of succession being anything else than resolution & rebellion; and if resolutions could be passed with unanimity at an early day by the Legislature seconding these since & pledging the men and means of the whole state to respond to any calls of the Federal Government to maintain the Constitution & the <hr /> Union in their integrity, the effort I doubt not would be most salutary on the country. <pre> Yours Truly Lyman Trumbull </pre> <hr /> L. Trumbull <hr /> <hr /> Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Trumbull to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514236 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. <pre> Senate Chamber, Dec. 19- 1860 </pre> Hon. Richard Yates, <pre> My Dear Sir; </pre> <pre> i wrote you a day or two since in great haste, I scarcely remember exactly what I perhaps may repeat ideas then suggested. </pre> It seems to me it would have an excellent effect on the public mind just now for you to take strong Union ground in your message I repudiate the idea of succession being anything else than resolution & rebellion; and if resolutions could be passed with unanimity at an early day by the Legislature seconding these since & pledging the men and means of the whole state to respond to any calls of the Federal Government to maintain the Constitution & the <hr /> Union in their integrity, the effort I doubt not would be most salutary on the country. <pre> Yours Truly Lyman Trumbull </pre> <hr /> L. Trumbull <hr /> <hr /> Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/812cff6ff226d8c27455b114fe48d96a.pdf 50b20da904e33fe78ded659e8dbb3d9e Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Exeter N.H. Dec. 21. 1860 Hon. R. Yates, My Dear Sir: My modesty is somewhat shocked by sending you the accompanying papers, yet I will do it. A paper signed by the Delegates to Chicago will be sent in a few days. I take occasion to allow you, confidentially, to see the letter sent me by Mr. Giddings; showing that the extreme free-soilers might be satisfied with my selection. Besides I have pride in possessing the confidence and good will as such a man as Mr. Giddings, who seldom proposes his individual influence for office, for any man. Mr. Fogg, of whom Mr. G. speaks is known to Mr. Lincoln, and assures me that he wishes me in the Cabinet, rather than any other man in N. England. Mr. Tullock, our Sec. State, is very hearty in his appreciation, and gives <hr /> some evidence, respecting Mr. Hamlin's feelings. I have been offered a recommendation from the Delegates from Maine to Chicago, by one of the Delegates who proposed to procure them, but I declined to have any solicitation exerted in my behalf. I presume Mr. Hale would not be anxious for my selection, though he would not oppose it. He knows that my views of discreet behavior in the Senate by himself, have sometimes differed from his. I think he has not talked wisely this session of Congress. I think it well, that Mr. Lincoln should see these papers soon, yet I do not wish him to be incumbered by them, if his judgment, for any cause, directs him elsewhere. I think of being in Chicago in a week, but do not feel free to visit Mr. Lincoln, lest in his estimation I fall into the Common Mass of officeseekers. Please acknowledge recpt of these papers; and believe me; Your obliged friend, Amos Tuck <hr /> Hon A. Tuck Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amos Tuck to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-21 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514237 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Exeter N.H. Dec. 21. 1860 Hon. R. Yates, My Dear Sir: My modesty is somewhat shocked by sending you the accompanying papers, yet I will do it. A paper signed by the Delegates to Chicago will be sent in a few days. I take occasion to allow you, confidentially, to see the letter sent me by Mr. Giddings; showing that the extreme free-soilers might be satisfied with my selection. Besides I have pride in possessing the confidence and good will as such a man as Mr. Giddings, who seldom proposes his individual influence for office, for any man. Mr. Fogg, of whom Mr. G. speaks is known to Mr. Lincoln, and assures me that he wishes me in the Cabinet, rather than any other man in N. England. Mr. Tullock, our Sec. State, is very hearty in his appreciation, and gives <hr /> some evidence, respecting Mr. Hamlin's feelings. I have been offered a recommendation from the Delegates from Maine to Chicago, by one of the Delegates who proposed to procure them, but I declined to have any solicitation exerted in my behalf. I presume Mr. Hale would not be anxious for my selection, though he would not oppose it. He knows that my views of discreet behavior in the Senate by himself, have sometimes differed from his. I think he has not talked wisely this session of Congress. I think it well, that Mr. Lincoln should see these papers soon, yet I do not wish him to be incumbered by them, if his judgment, for any cause, directs him elsewhere. I think of being in Chicago in a week, but do not feel free to visit Mr. Lincoln, lest in his estimation I fall into the Common Mass of officeseekers. Please acknowledge recpt of these papers; and believe me; Your obliged friend, Amos Tuck <hr /> Hon A. Tuck Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/9d532575ea66c518bde29866c4cfaa5d.pdf 47fc8c12e63790c6c4d46382ea7b23cd Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Freeport Decm 22 1860 Friend Yates Below find a list of names that I think are first class names. I would of sent a list sooner but there was a number of these whose P.O. I did not know and I thought best to take time and be sure that I sent the names of men who will do to bet on. Jo Davies Co James Currie P.O. Dunlieth Wm Passmore Council Hill Abel Proctor Scales Mound C. Mackey ditto Wm Taylor Apple River Jas Jeffrey Hanover J W White ditto Geo Hass Jr Derinda Orange Gray Wards Grove Geo Townsend Rush H.S. Townsend ditto M Claypool ditto W. H. Leland Nora L. P. Woodruff Warren Dr. Champion ditto H DeJager Galena W R Rowley ditto A. L. Chettain ditto B H Campbell Jo Davies Co. Dr. W.A. Little Elizabeth Carroll County L H Bowen Savanna S. Porter ditto J.J. Cunningham Brookville D.Z. Herb ditto Miller [?] Smith Mt Carroll James Shaw ditto Volney Armour ditto J P Emmert ditto M [?] Landon ditto B.P. Shirk ditto Israel Jones Cherry Grove Henry Puterbaugh ditto Ogle County H A Mix Oregon F.G. Petrie ditto M W Smith ditto R C Burchell ditto M B Light ditto <hr /> Ogle Co P.O. Solon Cummins Grand DeTour J W Carpenter Polo M D Swift ditto S Z Pierce ditto C D Williams ditto J D Stevenson ditto V.A. Bogue ditto Prof Pope Mt Morris Hon D J Pinckney ditto Thos F Winston ditto F B Brayton ditto Geo W Hewett Forreston Saml B Kaufman Adeline Winnebago County P.O M Smith Esq Rockford Dr Wm Lyman ditto M B Derrick ditto J Marsh ditto Hon S M Church ditto Hon A S Miller ditto David Jewet Harrison Dr. Leffingwell ditto Robt J Cross Roscoe A D Lawrance ditto Peter Mabie ditto Wm C Prontie Peckatonica Wm H Welch ditto Frederick Brown ditto Winnebago Continued A J Betts Durand D H Smith ditto L V Cleveland Laona H Putnam ditto Lemuel Fisk Shirland Hazen Chandler ditto Wm H Yates ditto Henry Shiblee Rockton Wait Talcott ditto Geo H Hollister ditto A Johnson Cherry Valley Eli F Roberts ditto W H Johnson Kishwaukee J K Bingham Winnebago Joseph Birmingham Tyler Boon Co P.O. John B Fisher Belvidere J R Mudge ditto J S Nichols ditto N H Hotchiss ditto Isaac Miller ditto A C Fuller Es & Hon. & Judge etc. Luther Linderman Manchester M. Y. Gilbert Caledonia T.W. Humphrey Hicks Mills McHenry Co P.O. Geo T Stewart Woodstock Wm H Stewart ditto Harley Wayne Union <hr /> McHenry continued P.O. A .B. Coon Marengo C Lansing ditto E A Lacy Richmond John Sibley ditto Henry T Rice Hartland T B Wakeman Harvard Josiah St John Riley Stephenson Co J H C Burchard Freeport S. D. Atkins ditto W. S. Gray ditto T J Turner ditto M P Sweet ditto J.A. Clark ditto Wm M Buckly ditto Geo Woolbrecht ditto B. Wassaseiger ditto O.P. Duncan Rock Grove B P Bellknap Orangeville C M Shaffer ditto Cyrus Howe Oneco Phil Sweeley Winslow Wm Cox ditto D.S. Bogar New Pennsylvania J M Smith Buena Vista Doc Hays ditto continued Jackson Richart Cedervill Josiah Clingham ditto S F Dodds Lena A W Hull ditto Jacob Gable Kent Peter Kleckner ditto J.G. Devore Yellow Creek Saml Hays Loran John Ternure Jackson C VanBrocklin ditto James Taggart Ridot John Swanzy ditto John A Davis Rock Run Robt Lashell ditto S. J. Davis Davis Dr. Brennaman ditto Wm Young Freeport W Merrill ditto P. L. Wright ditto H R Wheeler ditto O. B. Munn ditto Wm Peters ditto R V Aukney ditto W A Youngman parties living in country who gets their mail in Tenn [written diagonally across from Merrill to Youngman] David Graham Rock Run <hr /> There I have given you names enough to save the country -- I hope to see you this winter if I can get time to come to Springfield. I wrote you some days ago in regard to Commissionship for Clark. When you have positively concluded upon the man you agoing to appoint if you think it proper let me know it as Mr Clark would like to know how the matter stands as soon as possible. In your message give the [secessionists?] h-ll they deserve to be put through. I see Bates goes into the Cabinet that suits me first rate hope the others will be as good men. Now Dick if there is anything more I can do for you remember you can command me. Allways Your friend J W Shaffer J W Shaffer List of Names S Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. W. Shaffer to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-22 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514238 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Freeport Decm 22 1860 Friend Yates Below find a list of names that I think are first class names. I would of sent a list sooner but there was a number of these whose P.O. I did not know and I thought best to take time and be sure that I sent the names of men who will do to bet on. Jo Davies Co James Currie P.O. Dunlieth Wm Passmore Council Hill Abel Proctor Scales Mound C. Mackey ditto Wm Taylor Apple River Jas Jeffrey Hanover J W White ditto Geo Hass Jr Derinda Orange Gray Wards Grove Geo Townsend Rush H.S. Townsend ditto M Claypool ditto W. H. Leland Nora L. P. Woodruff Warren Dr. Champion ditto H DeJager Galena W R Rowley ditto A. L. Chettain ditto B H Campbell Jo Davies Co. Dr. W.A. Little Elizabeth Carroll County L H Bowen Savanna S. Porter ditto J.J. Cunningham Brookville D.Z. Herb ditto Miller [?] Smith Mt Carroll James Shaw ditto Volney Armour ditto J P Emmert ditto M [?] Landon ditto B.P. Shirk ditto Israel Jones Cherry Grove Henry Puterbaugh ditto Ogle County H A Mix Oregon F.G. Petrie ditto M W Smith ditto R C Burchell ditto M B Light ditto <hr /> Ogle Co P.O. Solon Cummins Grand DeTour J W Carpenter Polo M D Swift ditto S Z Pierce ditto C D Williams ditto J D Stevenson ditto V.A. Bogue ditto Prof Pope Mt Morris Hon D J Pinckney ditto Thos F Winston ditto F B Brayton ditto Geo W Hewett Forreston Saml B Kaufman Adeline Winnebago County P.O M Smith Esq Rockford Dr Wm Lyman ditto M B Derrick ditto J Marsh ditto Hon S M Church ditto Hon A S Miller ditto David Jewet Harrison Dr. Leffingwell ditto Robt J Cross Roscoe A D Lawrance ditto Peter Mabie ditto Wm C Prontie Peckatonica Wm H Welch ditto Frederick Brown ditto Winnebago Continued A J Betts Durand D H Smith ditto L V Cleveland Laona H Putnam ditto Lemuel Fisk Shirland Hazen Chandler ditto Wm H Yates ditto Henry Shiblee Rockton Wait Talcott ditto Geo H Hollister ditto A Johnson Cherry Valley Eli F Roberts ditto W H Johnson Kishwaukee J K Bingham Winnebago Joseph Birmingham Tyler Boon Co P.O. John B Fisher Belvidere J R Mudge ditto J S Nichols ditto N H Hotchiss ditto Isaac Miller ditto A C Fuller Es & Hon. & Judge etc. Luther Linderman Manchester M. Y. Gilbert Caledonia T.W. Humphrey Hicks Mills McHenry Co P.O. Geo T Stewart Woodstock Wm H Stewart ditto Harley Wayne Union <hr /> McHenry continued P.O. A .B. Coon Marengo C Lansing ditto E A Lacy Richmond John Sibley ditto Henry T Rice Hartland T B Wakeman Harvard Josiah St John Riley Stephenson Co J H C Burchard Freeport S. D. Atkins ditto W. S. Gray ditto T J Turner ditto M P Sweet ditto J.A. Clark ditto Wm M Buckly ditto Geo Woolbrecht ditto B. Wassaseiger ditto O.P. Duncan Rock Grove B P Bellknap Orangeville C M Shaffer ditto Cyrus Howe Oneco Phil Sweeley Winslow Wm Cox ditto D.S. Bogar New Pennsylvania J M Smith Buena Vista Doc Hays ditto continued Jackson Richart Cedervill Josiah Clingham ditto S F Dodds Lena A W Hull ditto Jacob Gable Kent Peter Kleckner ditto J.G. Devore Yellow Creek Saml Hays Loran John Ternure Jackson C VanBrocklin ditto James Taggart Ridot John Swanzy ditto John A Davis Rock Run Robt Lashell ditto S. J. Davis Davis Dr. Brennaman ditto Wm Young Freeport W Merrill ditto P. L. Wright ditto H R Wheeler ditto O. B. Munn ditto Wm Peters ditto R V Aukney ditto W A Youngman parties living in country who gets their mail in Tenn [written diagonally across from Merrill to Youngman] David Graham Rock Run <hr /> There I have given you names enough to save the country -- I hope to see you this winter if I can get time to come to Springfield. I wrote you some days ago in regard to Commissionship for Clark. When you have positively concluded upon the man you agoing to appoint if you think it proper let me know it as Mr Clark would like to know how the matter stands as soon as possible. In your message give the [secessionists?] h-ll they deserve to be put through. I see Bates goes into the Cabinet that suits me first rate hope the others will be as good men. Now Dick if there is anything more I can do for you remember you can command me. Allways Your friend J W Shaffer J W Shaffer List of Names S Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/0bf47114de7623583fce9a268e8b5f94.pdf 6465a0c3afd229700296cd16e31bde66 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Marine Bank of Chicago. Chicago, Dec 27, 1860 Hon. Richard Yates, Jacksonville, Ill My dear sir: I am in receipt of yours of the 23rd. My opinion is that there is not so much fault in our present law as in its misconstruction, perversion, and nonenforcement. Yet there are amendments which are indispensable for the protection of the public. 1st we need to have a requirement that all bonds shall have such an endorsement upon them when [deposited?] as to destroy their negotiability, as long as they shall remain on deposit, with a provision that they cannot be taken out of the Treasurer's hands without an order of Court, which may be made at any time by the Judge in [vacation?] as well as as [illegible] [illegible] but to be entered arrears. We need this in order to prevent the bonds being stolen or abstracted. We have thus far been fortunate in having honest officers and clerks in the Treasurer's Office, but there is no security that this will continue so. 2nd.. We want to amend the law so as to require a redemption in Springfield or Chicago, at a fair rate, say from 1/2 to 1 percent discount. 3d. We want the law amended so that the formal liability clause may be made <hr /> available and in order to do this, we want the law so amended that no new bank can be established without the actual cash capital of at least $50,000 as required by the law. My opinion is that we should tax the bank for their actual capital, or presumed capital of $50,000 each and for any surplus of capital they may actually have, if any and for the circulation, if any, above actual capital, require them to pay into the State Treasury 1/2 of one percent. I think too, that the bond deposited for circulation should be confined to Illinois & U.S. Stock or nearly so, and the coupon upon the bonds of banks which have not a ten percent margin should be retained by the Auditor, or exchanged only for returned circulation until they have the same margin as the new banks. But after all, the main difficulty is that the banking law has been so construed as to encourage banking without capital and what we want is to frame the law as to encourage banking upon capital and discourage it where there is no capital. If the law was enforced requiring actual capital, and actual banks instead of more circulation machines, we should have less difficulty; but the provision of the 34th Section requiring the bank to report the debts owing to the association, and the date and amount of each bill or note discounted, and that the same should be published in a newspaper, without precluding any bank doing a discount <hr /> business. No bank would thus expose its own and customers affairs. This provision should be repealed. The Auditor and Treasurer should be made Bank Commissioners with a Superintendent to be the Chairman of the Board, and if you could appoint some man of as much decision of character as William [Thomas?], as Chairman of the Bank Commissioners who could see the law enforced, we could soon have our currency in right shape. It may be objected to this legislation that the banks have vested rights. This is not so, except in a few instances, as their [pretended?] capital, is all sham and their affidavits perjured, and they cannot resist liquidation in the enforcement of amendments. I am for making such amendments to the law as will secure the bill [illegible], and the public, and at the same time encourage banking. I think this can be done. I note what you say about the present national crisis. I hope you will recommend a revision of our militia laws and the maintenance in each county, and especially in our cities of sufficient military organizations to secure the enforcement of the laws and the suppression of mobs and illegal violence. I do not despair of so much of the Union <hr /> as can be of any use to us. If the Cotton States could get out of the Union peaceably and honorably, I am not sure that it would not be a great deal better for us. But the laws must be enforced, and it will not do for the Republican party to show any fear or weakness in the knees, or to back down at all. It is right, and upon its platform it can maintain itself. Any concessions or [illegible] will only destroy it, without doing any good to the country. If the South are not willing to abide by the Constitution as our fathers formed and administered it, let them quit, if they can; but let us do all we can to maintain and preserve our inheritance and escape the hole in which Tyler & Fillmore fell. Truly yours J Tony Scammon J.T. Scammon Bank Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. Tony Scammon to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-27 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514239 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Marine Bank of Chicago. Chicago, Dec 27, 1860 Hon. Richard Yates, Jacksonville, Ill My dear sir: I am in receipt of yours of the 23rd. My opinion is that there is not so much fault in our present law as in its misconstruction, perversion, and nonenforcement. Yet there are amendments which are indispensable for the protection of the public. 1st we need to have a requirement that all bonds shall have such an endorsement upon them when [deposited?] as to destroy their negotiability, as long as they shall remain on deposit, with a provision that they cannot be taken out of the Treasurer's hands without an order of Court, which may be made at any time by the Judge in [vacation?] as well as as [illegible] [illegible] but to be entered arrears. We need this in order to prevent the bonds being stolen or abstracted. We have thus far been fortunate in having honest officers and clerks in the Treasurer's Office, but there is no security that this will continue so. 2nd.. We want to amend the law so as to require a redemption in Springfield or Chicago, at a fair rate, say from 1/2 to 1 percent discount. 3d. We want the law amended so that the formal liability clause may be made <hr /> available and in order to do this, we want the law so amended that no new bank can be established without the actual cash capital of at least $50,000 as required by the law. My opinion is that we should tax the bank for their actual capital, or presumed capital of $50,000 each and for any surplus of capital they may actually have, if any and for the circulation, if any, above actual capital, require them to pay into the State Treasury 1/2 of one percent. I think too, that the bond deposited for circulation should be confined to Illinois & U.S. Stock or nearly so, and the coupon upon the bonds of banks which have not a ten percent margin should be retained by the Auditor, or exchanged only for returned circulation until they have the same margin as the new banks. But after all, the main difficulty is that the banking law has been so construed as to encourage banking without capital and what we want is to frame the law as to encourage banking upon capital and discourage it where there is no capital. If the law was enforced requiring actual capital, and actual banks instead of more circulation machines, we should have less difficulty; but the provision of the 34th Section requiring the bank to report the debts owing to the association, and the date and amount of each bill or note discounted, and that the same should be published in a newspaper, without precluding any bank doing a discount <hr /> business. No bank would thus expose its own and customers affairs. This provision should be repealed. The Auditor and Treasurer should be made Bank Commissioners with a Superintendent to be the Chairman of the Board, and if you could appoint some man of as much decision of character as William [Thomas?], as Chairman of the Bank Commissioners who could see the law enforced, we could soon have our currency in right shape. It may be objected to this legislation that the banks have vested rights. This is not so, except in a few instances, as their [pretended?] capital, is all sham and their affidavits perjured, and they cannot resist liquidation in the enforcement of amendments. I am for making such amendments to the law as will secure the bill [illegible], and the public, and at the same time encourage banking. I think this can be done. I note what you say about the present national crisis. I hope you will recommend a revision of our militia laws and the maintenance in each county, and especially in our cities of sufficient military organizations to secure the enforcement of the laws and the suppression of mobs and illegal violence. I do not despair of so much of the Union <hr /> as can be of any use to us. If the Cotton States could get out of the Union peaceably and honorably, I am not sure that it would not be a great deal better for us. But the laws must be enforced, and it will not do for the Republican party to show any fear or weakness in the knees, or to back down at all. It is right, and upon its platform it can maintain itself. Any concessions or [illegible] will only destroy it, without doing any good to the country. If the South are not willing to abide by the Constitution as our fathers formed and administered it, let them quit, if they can; but let us do all we can to maintain and preserve our inheritance and escape the hole in which Tyler & Fillmore fell. Truly yours J Tony Scammon J.T. Scammon Bank Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/9a010b51792db5277a34a459d5f590a9.pdf badc621d7435fb9c3f53a60e31ff677c Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. <pre> Belvidere Dec 30 1864 </pre> Governor Yates <pre> My Dear Sir: </pre> <pre> In my last I believe I wrote you that I would be in Chicago last week and would write you from there and make such suggestions as occurred to me on the subject of our present defective banking laws? I have just returned from there but had no time while there to write you and I do so now with a full appreciation of the difficulties which surround the subject. That our present banking laws are radically defective does not admit of doubt. Any law which permits, much less encourages, a set of irresponsible adventurers to put afloat as money millions of these "circulation" at remote and unknown parts of the state and which practically requires the bill holder to see to its redemption instead of the parties who issue it must of course be politically dangerous to the commercial and agricultural interest of the state. There can be no real prosperity where such </pre> <hr /> <pre> 2 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> a law exists because no man who holds a hundred dollars of this "circulation" knows whether it is worth sixty dollars or eighty dollars, but all do know it is not worth what it pretends to be. While in Chicago I spent quietly two days in endeavoring to ascertain the wishes and (illegible) of the masses who are not interested in profit. Noting this state of things and I find there is great unanimity upon the following propositions; 1. That U.S. & Illinois stocks should only be hereafter secured as security and that the present ten per cent margin should be adhered to. 2. That none but bona fide owners of these stocks and who own them over and above all debts & incumbrances should be allowed to deposit them and receive circulatory notes. 3. That some increased facilities should be provided for protesting delinquent banks and to that end severe punishment should be provided for obstructing persons in making demand & protesting: and banks having 4 no place of business liable to protest any where. The protest to specify facts and the Auditor <hr /> <pre> 3 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> to be at liberty to enquire into the sufficiency of the facts set forth as ground of protest. 5. In addition to redemption at home, banks to be at liberty to establish agencies of redemption at Chicago, Springfield or Alton and on redemption made at either of these points to be allowed from one half to one per cent. Banks establishing such agencies liable to demand these, and protest these & immediate liquidation if protested there. Such banks known to have thirty days after protest at their Counties and all others ten days as now provided on paying twelve per cent int. 6. Quarterly examination to be made by the officers of the Banks if their stocks deposited with Auditor and some promises to be made against their negociability in case they are abstracted. <pre> These propositions cover the principal points which they desire incorporated in amendments to our present laws & include some suggestions which I made to them. A great many other schemes are on foot which I do not remember. The main </pre> <hr /> <pre> (4) (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> features of these proposed amendments I think correct. The 2nd, 4th & 5th I have not sufficiently considered to feel confident about but the principle involved in them I think sound. I do not claim to be a practical banker in the fashionable acceptation of that term and therefore do not pretend to have that profound insight into the workings of any system that some have. I never was directly or indirectly interested in any bank note except as holder nor ever shall be no matter what our laws may be. I am only interested therefore in the banks redeeming their issue at par and without any unnecessary delay. This the people demand shall be done & they will crush out any system, banks or party who stand in the way of this thing. <pre> I am vain enough to believe that I could prepare a reasonably good banking law for our state if we had no banks now in existence but the great difficulty in now inaugurating a new system growing out of the fact that we have word afloat about twelve millions of currency issued under the present defective laws. The fact is undeniable that our circulation </pre> <hr /> <pre> 5 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> now is actually more than we require to transact our business. "It is as it is" & the loss of driving our present banks to the wall would face not upon the banks of issue, as ought to be the case, but upon the bill holders - the farmer - merchants & business men of the state. Here is the net. Now what shall be done? After considerable anxious reflection and examination, if I was Governor I would recommend to the Legislature. 1st That a law should be immediately proposed preventing the issuing of any more bank notes under the present laws. This would stop the evil and give time for the Legislature to produce some laws to meet the exigency of the times. 2nd That none but U S. & Illinois stocks should be received as security and that the ten per cent margin should be preserved. 3 That effect should be given to the 4th sec. of Article 10 of the Constitution respecting the individual liability of stockholders by providing in what manner that liabil- <hr /> <pre> 6 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> ity shall be as contained and at what time it shall be deemed to exist and during what time it shall continue. The 38th section of the act of 1857 is inadequate and cumbersome & expensive to enforce. All transfers of stock done amid this liability should be declared void and all possibility of irresponsible and nominal holders of stock guarded against: and stock holders should be made liable for the interest drop created during the time they hold the stock. And I am inclined to think that the bill holder should have a right of action against the stockholder before all the assetts of the bank are exhausted with the privilege of having powers, the judgement or decree against him discharged by turning out to the office majority of the Corporation. 3 That banks hereafter and those now in existence who come into the "new arrangement" or conform to the principles of the new law shall have the right to take the same interest as is or may be hereafter allowed to be taken by other persons and no more 4th The banks should be made to redeem at some accessible points in the State <hr /> <pre> 7 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> at some reasonable discount say 3/4 of one per cent which would make exchange one per cent on New York and this rate for some years to come would I think be realistically to the Commercial interest of the State. And they should be allowed if they desired to remove their nominal place of business to such points and these redeem at par. Many of them now have no place of business and they are not required by law to keep open doors during any particular hours of the day.This is wrong & should be remedied. This plan of a central redemption I should insist on unless they can be compelled always to redeem at their Counties & I think it is fair of the banks providing they are paid for it, in a reasonable discount. 5th Frequent examination of the securities should be required to be made by the offices of the Banks to see that their Bonds & Stocks are actually on hand. This to protect themselves as well as bill holders. If we knew we should always have as honest and capable Treasurer & Auditor as we now have this would not be necessary, but <hr /> <pre> 8 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> legislature should all look to possible contingencies. 6th Some businesses should be made to guard against "abstractions" I think they call it. I call it 'stealings' The recent robbery of the Indian Hand at Washington has again impressed me with the necessity of having some stamp affixed to these securities to prevent there being negociated unless they are lawfully and honestly withdrawn, which lawful withdrawal may be indicated also by a proper stamp or seal. <pre> These suggestions are thrown out for what they may be worth. They do not of course go into details because details are matters for the Legislature. I should be glad to have you recommend them or such parts of them as are thought proper, to the Legislature, for these reasons. First because I think them just and expedient and secondly because I think the people would sustain you in doing so. If I Know my own thoughts I desire to see your administration made honorable and profitable to the state </pre> <hr /> <pre> 9 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> of which we are so jointly proud. We have labored long and hard to have an opportunity of inaugurating a Republican state policy here. To do this the error and corruption of the part should be corrected and explored and a repetition most vigilantly guarded against. In these perilous times on which we have fallen on coming into power, we should make our main interest - state prosperity - the subject of our most anxious thoughts and watchful care. In the recent brilliant success you have made of the state you have justified the expectations of your most devoted and admiring personal friends. By directing the energies and power of your administration to restore public confidence in our state finances: in averting the further growth of an evil resulting from unguarded banking laws - an evil now felt by every citizen of the state -: and in being true to the sacred cause of liberty and humanity with which your name for the last six years has been specially identified, you will add strength and honor to the party which has placed you in power and be a blessing to the commercial and industrial interest of our people. <hr /> <pre> (10) (Dec. 30, 1860) In addition to National politics you have already my poor opinion that usually the less said about them in Governors messages the better. Recent developments known have convinced me that the Country will justly expect something from you on this subject. Your position known on this point is one of great delicacy as a matter of policy and should not I think be taken without careful consultation with Mr Lincoln. Whatever you say as to our federal relations will be understood by the Country as reflecting Mr Lincolns views and policy In view of the unparalleled embarrassments which surround him the less he is committed until he is actually in power the better: and then I say let him hourly remember his official oath and trust in God and the patriotism of the American people. Until (illegible) a few days I had hoped that the madness which rules the house would soon give way and reason would control the conduct of our southern bretheren. Hence I appeared more of a Conservative while at Springfield than I </pre> <hr /> <pre> (11) (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> really felt. But present appearances too plainly indicate that the die is cast and that blood must flow before this treason of the south comes to an end. They must retrace their steps or conquer us or we must conquer them! There seems to be now no alternative left. The high and holy mission of our party now seems to be to protect the Constitution and maintain the integrity of our government. What high and holy patriotism should this thought inspire! The nation is now called upon to dedicate itself and to determine whether we have a government strong enough to maintain its friends against its internal enemies. <pre> Our position as a State will be most critical. Wedged in between two slave states we shall have a double frontier to protect: and, in case of War, or civil insurrection, our whole state will soon be involved in the struggle. The South I think will be in sixty days united against us. Much as the southern slave states desire to avoid alliances with the Cotton States I do not think they can long avoid it. The force of circumstances will </pre> ____ <pre> 12 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> soon dragg them in and we must prepare ourselves when this does. <pre> Without therefore saying any thing to exasperate I would recommend an immediate enrollment of the militia of the state. Let it be done thoroughly and without delay. There is no time to be lost for raw recruits cannot be drilled for service short of two or three months. But I cannot dwell. My letter is already too long and my soul is filled with more grief than anger. May God preserve You Richard Yates and the cause you represent! </pre> <pre> Truly Your Friend Allen C. Fuller </pre> P.S. I will write you to-morrow on the other subject mentioned in your last letter -- Please remember me to Mr. Lincoln, not because I am or expect to be an office seeker at his party nor because he knows any thing about me, but because I am a man & his friend -- <hr /> A.C. Fuller Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allen C. Fuller to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-30 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514240 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. <pre> Belvidere Dec 30 1864 </pre> Governor Yates <pre> My Dear Sir: </pre> <pre> In my last I believe I wrote you that I would be in Chicago last week and would write you from there and make such suggestions as occurred to me on the subject of our present defective banking laws? I have just returned from there but had no time while there to write you and I do so now with a full appreciation of the difficulties which surround the subject. That our present banking laws are radically defective does not admit of doubt. Any law which permits, much less encourages, a set of irresponsible adventurers to put afloat as money millions of these "circulation" at remote and unknown parts of the state and which practically requires the bill holder to see to its redemption instead of the parties who issue it must of course be politically dangerous to the commercial and agricultural interest of the state. There can be no real prosperity where such </pre> <hr /> <pre> 2 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> a law exists because no man who holds a hundred dollars of this "circulation" knows whether it is worth sixty dollars or eighty dollars, but all do know it is not worth what it pretends to be. While in Chicago I spent quietly two days in endeavoring to ascertain the wishes and (illegible) of the masses who are not interested in profit. Noting this state of things and I find there is great unanimity upon the following propositions; 1. That U.S. & Illinois stocks should only be hereafter secured as security and that the present ten per cent margin should be adhered to. 2. That none but bona fide owners of these stocks and who own them over and above all debts & incumbrances should be allowed to deposit them and receive circulatory notes. 3. That some increased facilities should be provided for protesting delinquent banks and to that end severe punishment should be provided for obstructing persons in making demand & protesting: and banks having 4 no place of business liable to protest any where. The protest to specify facts and the Auditor <hr /> <pre> 3 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> to be at liberty to enquire into the sufficiency of the facts set forth as ground of protest. 5. In addition to redemption at home, banks to be at liberty to establish agencies of redemption at Chicago, Springfield or Alton and on redemption made at either of these points to be allowed from one half to one per cent. Banks establishing such agencies liable to demand these, and protest these & immediate liquidation if protested there. Such banks known to have thirty days after protest at their Counties and all others ten days as now provided on paying twelve per cent int. 6. Quarterly examination to be made by the officers of the Banks if their stocks deposited with Auditor and some promises to be made against their negociability in case they are abstracted. <pre> These propositions cover the principal points which they desire incorporated in amendments to our present laws & include some suggestions which I made to them. A great many other schemes are on foot which I do not remember. The main </pre> <hr /> <pre> (4) (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> features of these proposed amendments I think correct. The 2nd, 4th & 5th I have not sufficiently considered to feel confident about but the principle involved in them I think sound. I do not claim to be a practical banker in the fashionable acceptation of that term and therefore do not pretend to have that profound insight into the workings of any system that some have. I never was directly or indirectly interested in any bank note except as holder nor ever shall be no matter what our laws may be. I am only interested therefore in the banks redeeming their issue at par and without any unnecessary delay. This the people demand shall be done & they will crush out any system, banks or party who stand in the way of this thing. <pre> I am vain enough to believe that I could prepare a reasonably good banking law for our state if we had no banks now in existence but the great difficulty in now inaugurating a new system growing out of the fact that we have word afloat about twelve millions of currency issued under the present defective laws. The fact is undeniable that our circulation </pre> <hr /> <pre> 5 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> now is actually more than we require to transact our business. "It is as it is" & the loss of driving our present banks to the wall would face not upon the banks of issue, as ought to be the case, but upon the bill holders - the farmer - merchants & business men of the state. Here is the net. Now what shall be done? After considerable anxious reflection and examination, if I was Governor I would recommend to the Legislature. 1st That a law should be immediately proposed preventing the issuing of any more bank notes under the present laws. This would stop the evil and give time for the Legislature to produce some laws to meet the exigency of the times. 2nd That none but U S. & Illinois stocks should be received as security and that the ten per cent margin should be preserved. 3 That effect should be given to the 4th sec. of Article 10 of the Constitution respecting the individual liability of stockholders by providing in what manner that liabil- <hr /> <pre> 6 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> ity shall be as contained and at what time it shall be deemed to exist and during what time it shall continue. The 38th section of the act of 1857 is inadequate and cumbersome & expensive to enforce. All transfers of stock done amid this liability should be declared void and all possibility of irresponsible and nominal holders of stock guarded against: and stock holders should be made liable for the interest drop created during the time they hold the stock. And I am inclined to think that the bill holder should have a right of action against the stockholder before all the assetts of the bank are exhausted with the privilege of having powers, the judgement or decree against him discharged by turning out to the office majority of the Corporation. 3 That banks hereafter and those now in existence who come into the "new arrangement" or conform to the principles of the new law shall have the right to take the same interest as is or may be hereafter allowed to be taken by other persons and no more 4th The banks should be made to redeem at some accessible points in the State <hr /> <pre> 7 (Dec 30, 1860) </pre> at some reasonable discount say 3/4 of one per cent which would make exchange one per cent on New York and this rate for some years to come would I think be realistically to the Commercial interest of the State. And they should be allowed if they desired to remove their nominal place of business to such points and these redeem at par. Many of them now have no place of business and they are not required by law to keep open doors during any particular hours of the day.This is wrong & should be remedied. This plan of a central redemption I should insist on unless they can be compelled always to redeem at their Counties & I think it is fair of the banks providing they are paid for it, in a reasonable discount. 5th Frequent examination of the securities should be required to be made by the offices of the Banks to see that their Bonds & Stocks are actually on hand. This to protect themselves as well as bill holders. If we knew we should always have as honest and capable Treasurer & Auditor as we now have this would not be necessary, but <hr /> <pre> 8 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> legislature should all look to possible contingencies. 6th Some businesses should be made to guard against "abstractions" I think they call it. I call it 'stealings' The recent robbery of the Indian Hand at Washington has again impressed me with the necessity of having some stamp affixed to these securities to prevent there being negociated unless they are lawfully and honestly withdrawn, which lawful withdrawal may be indicated also by a proper stamp or seal. <pre> These suggestions are thrown out for what they may be worth. They do not of course go into details because details are matters for the Legislature. I should be glad to have you recommend them or such parts of them as are thought proper, to the Legislature, for these reasons. First because I think them just and expedient and secondly because I think the people would sustain you in doing so. If I Know my own thoughts I desire to see your administration made honorable and profitable to the state </pre> <hr /> <pre> 9 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> of which we are so jointly proud. We have labored long and hard to have an opportunity of inaugurating a Republican state policy here. To do this the error and corruption of the part should be corrected and explored and a repetition most vigilantly guarded against. In these perilous times on which we have fallen on coming into power, we should make our main interest - state prosperity - the subject of our most anxious thoughts and watchful care. In the recent brilliant success you have made of the state you have justified the expectations of your most devoted and admiring personal friends. By directing the energies and power of your administration to restore public confidence in our state finances: in averting the further growth of an evil resulting from unguarded banking laws - an evil now felt by every citizen of the state -: and in being true to the sacred cause of liberty and humanity with which your name for the last six years has been specially identified, you will add strength and honor to the party which has placed you in power and be a blessing to the commercial and industrial interest of our people. <hr /> <pre> (10) (Dec. 30, 1860) In addition to National politics you have already my poor opinion that usually the less said about them in Governors messages the better. Recent developments known have convinced me that the Country will justly expect something from you on this subject. Your position known on this point is one of great delicacy as a matter of policy and should not I think be taken without careful consultation with Mr Lincoln. Whatever you say as to our federal relations will be understood by the Country as reflecting Mr Lincolns views and policy In view of the unparalleled embarrassments which surround him the less he is committed until he is actually in power the better: and then I say let him hourly remember his official oath and trust in God and the patriotism of the American people. Until (illegible) a few days I had hoped that the madness which rules the house would soon give way and reason would control the conduct of our southern bretheren. Hence I appeared more of a Conservative while at Springfield than I </pre> <hr /> <pre> (11) (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> really felt. But present appearances too plainly indicate that the die is cast and that blood must flow before this treason of the south comes to an end. They must retrace their steps or conquer us or we must conquer them! There seems to be now no alternative left. The high and holy mission of our party now seems to be to protect the Constitution and maintain the integrity of our government. What high and holy patriotism should this thought inspire! The nation is now called upon to dedicate itself and to determine whether we have a government strong enough to maintain its friends against its internal enemies. <pre> Our position as a State will be most critical. Wedged in between two slave states we shall have a double frontier to protect: and, in case of War, or civil insurrection, our whole state will soon be involved in the struggle. The South I think will be in sixty days united against us. Much as the southern slave states desire to avoid alliances with the Cotton States I do not think they can long avoid it. The force of circumstances will </pre> ____ <pre> 12 (Dec. 30, 1860) </pre> soon dragg them in and we must prepare ourselves when this does. <pre> Without therefore saying any thing to exasperate I would recommend an immediate enrollment of the militia of the state. Let it be done thoroughly and without delay. There is no time to be lost for raw recruits cannot be drilled for service short of two or three months. But I cannot dwell. My letter is already too long and my soul is filled with more grief than anger. May God preserve You Richard Yates and the cause you represent! </pre> <pre> Truly Your Friend Allen C. Fuller </pre> P.S. I will write you to-morrow on the other subject mentioned in your last letter -- Please remember me to Mr. Lincoln, not because I am or expect to be an office seeker at his party nor because he knows any thing about me, but because I am a man & his friend -- <hr /> A.C. Fuller Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/c350581a675ece28b3f09e4815ffcd07.pdf 3d0ac451fe378a287c1d65d6cfdaf4f6 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. 89' Mr. Richd Yates 1860 In a/c [?] with R Hockenhull Jan 1 To ams of alo [?] 1859 94 20 <pre> 21 Lard Oil 05 1/4 " Glue 05 10 3 1 Bot. Frangipanni 75 16 1 Chlo. Lime 15 19 Lard Oil 05 24 Twine 10 30 Hillg Prestn 30 Cough Candy 10 40 </pre> Feb 7 1 Sqr 20/28 Glass cat 50 <pre> 1 " Putty 10 60 10 1 Bot. D. Cement 25 15 Mucilage 10 17 1/2 Pt. Cologne 40 1 Bot H. [Restner?] 140 22 Borax 05 Oil Cloves 05 10 28 1 Pr. Scissors 60 </pre> Mar 7 1 Hair Brush 80 <pre> 13 1 oz [Bucher?] 10 19 Bucher 10 Spts Nitre 10 20 1 Bs C. C. Pills 25 45 22 1 Pocket Knife 150 Gum Paste 10 160 23 1 Be Sein[?] Powders 30 24 G. Arabic 05 Bucher[?] 10 15 </pre> Apr 9 " 05 " 10 15 <pre> Quatio[?] 05 16 Gum Tragaeanth [?] 10 20 Hillg [?] 2 Prestws[?] 1 28 1 Cake Honey Soap 25 Castile Soap 20 45 </pre> May11 1 Ou 20/26 Glass 575 <pre> 29 1 Bot. Turpentine 10 </pre> June 5 1 Be [?] Pills 20 <pre> 15 Oil Cloves 05 16 1 Pk. Arrow Root 20 1 H. Oil Cloves 10 18 Vanilla Bean 10 20 Oil Cloves 10 26 Lemon Syrup 15 28 15 Pills Opium 15 </pre> July 2 1 Pk. Arrow Root 20 <pre> 6 Court [?] Plaster [?] 05 17 1 Be [?] Pills 15 1 Sh. [?] Plaster 25 40 18 Paregoric 20 </pre> Amo card ford 11110 <hr /> Amo Brot up 11110 July 18 2 oz Gum Arabic 10 <pre> 20 1 Tl Syr. Rhei [?] 15 8 Pr 5 in P Butts [?] 106 1 Gro. 1 1/4 in Screws 43 149 27 1 Pr. 5 in P Ba'lts [?] 15 28 1 Vl (vial) Laudanum 15 </pre> Aug 15 4 oz Sweet Oil 10 <pre> 18 2 Door Bolts 40 21 Laudanum 10 Iujabo Pasto[?] 05 15 22 1 Staples 125 25 2 oz Cinnamon 10 27 2 " Staples[?] 60 29 Tooth Drops 15 30 Oil Cloves 10 3 Gro. 1 1/2 in 12 Screws 165 175 31 3 H Pr bin P Butts[?] 7 </pre> Sept 19 Tooth Picks 10 <pre> 22 " Putty 10 3 Sqr 16/21/ Glass Cut 105 115 </pre> Oct 1 1 Sqr 12/16 Fr.[?] Glass 25 <pre> 2 Magnesia 10 8 Oil Cloves 05 12 1 Be Froches [?] 25 1 oz Quicksilver 15 Szr N. Cherry 15 55 15 Geisn Tragger & Boush [?] 15 16 3 M. K. Latches 105 27 Whiting 05 Lequince 05 [?] 10 Irish Moss 15 25 30 1 Pak Magnesia [?] 10 </pre> Nov 2 2 Sqr 8/10 Glass + P [?] 13 <pre> 6 Seidletz Powders [?] 05 7 1 Bot. Ext Lemon 25 Oil Cloves 05 17 Magnesia 10 19 1 H. Turf Boush [?] 10 21 1 Putty Knife 25 1 10/12 Glass 05 30 1 Sqr 9/12 Glass 05 Liquorice 05 10 </pre> Dec 3 Magnesia 10 <pre> 5 4 oz H. Syr. Sars. [?] 25 6 1 Pa(ck) Large Tacks 15 12 Liniment + Laud (short for laudenum) 25 Paregoric + Al Sassafras [?] 20 45 14 4 oz Syr. Sars. [?] 20 1 H. Tr. Valerian [?] 15 </pre> Amo card up 13022 <hr /> Amo Brot up 13022 Dec 15 1 Bot Tooth Syrup 25 <pre> 15 8 oz H. To. Gentian 35 1 Bocust Prush [?] 150 17 9 oz Cologne 45 18 1 Bot. L. S. Oil 15 22 1 H. Showgr. [?] 25 1 Bot G. Cordial 10 2 Tr. Butts + Scrs [?] 15 50 1 Bot Perfume 30 24 1 Female Syringe [?] 35 Couch Plaster [?] 05 27 1 Rubber Syringe 150 1 Bu Basilicon [?] 10 160 $ 13572 </pre> <hr /> Richd Yates in a/c with Robt Hockenhall Paid Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource R. Hockenhull to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-30 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514243 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. 89' Mr. Richd Yates 1860 In a/c [?] with R Hockenhull Jan 1 To ams of alo [?] 1859 94 20 <pre> 21 Lard Oil 05 1/4 " Glue 05 10 3 1 Bot. Frangipanni 75 16 1 Chlo. Lime 15 19 Lard Oil 05 24 Twine 10 30 Hillg Prestn 30 Cough Candy 10 40 </pre> Feb 7 1 Sqr 20/28 Glass cat 50 <pre> 1 " Putty 10 60 10 1 Bot. D. Cement 25 15 Mucilage 10 17 1/2 Pt. Cologne 40 1 Bot H. [Restner?] 140 22 Borax 05 Oil Cloves 05 10 28 1 Pr. Scissors 60 </pre> Mar 7 1 Hair Brush 80 <pre> 13 1 oz [Bucher?] 10 19 Bucher 10 Spts Nitre 10 20 1 Bs C. C. Pills 25 45 22 1 Pocket Knife 150 Gum Paste 10 160 23 1 Be Sein[?] Powders 30 24 G. Arabic 05 Bucher[?] 10 15 </pre> Apr 9 " 05 " 10 15 <pre> Quatio[?] 05 16 Gum Tragaeanth [?] 10 20 Hillg [?] 2 Prestws[?] 1 28 1 Cake Honey Soap 25 Castile Soap 20 45 </pre> May11 1 Ou 20/26 Glass 575 <pre> 29 1 Bot. Turpentine 10 </pre> June 5 1 Be [?] Pills 20 <pre> 15 Oil Cloves 05 16 1 Pk. Arrow Root 20 1 H. Oil Cloves 10 18 Vanilla Bean 10 20 Oil Cloves 10 26 Lemon Syrup 15 28 15 Pills Opium 15 </pre> July 2 1 Pk. Arrow Root 20 <pre> 6 Court [?] Plaster [?] 05 17 1 Be [?] Pills 15 1 Sh. [?] Plaster 25 40 18 Paregoric 20 </pre> Amo card ford 11110 <hr /> Amo Brot up 11110 July 18 2 oz Gum Arabic 10 <pre> 20 1 Tl Syr. Rhei [?] 15 8 Pr 5 in P Butts [?] 106 1 Gro. 1 1/4 in Screws 43 149 27 1 Pr. 5 in P Ba'lts [?] 15 28 1 Vl (vial) Laudanum 15 </pre> Aug 15 4 oz Sweet Oil 10 <pre> 18 2 Door Bolts 40 21 Laudanum 10 Iujabo Pasto[?] 05 15 22 1 Staples 125 25 2 oz Cinnamon 10 27 2 " Staples[?] 60 29 Tooth Drops 15 30 Oil Cloves 10 3 Gro. 1 1/2 in 12 Screws 165 175 31 3 H Pr bin P Butts[?] 7 </pre> Sept 19 Tooth Picks 10 <pre> 22 " Putty 10 3 Sqr 16/21/ Glass Cut 105 115 </pre> Oct 1 1 Sqr 12/16 Fr.[?] Glass 25 <pre> 2 Magnesia 10 8 Oil Cloves 05 12 1 Be Froches [?] 25 1 oz Quicksilver 15 Szr N. Cherry 15 55 15 Geisn Tragger & Boush [?] 15 16 3 M. K. Latches 105 27 Whiting 05 Lequince 05 [?] 10 Irish Moss 15 25 30 1 Pak Magnesia [?] 10 </pre> Nov 2 2 Sqr 8/10 Glass + P [?] 13 <pre> 6 Seidletz Powders [?] 05 7 1 Bot. Ext Lemon 25 Oil Cloves 05 17 Magnesia 10 19 1 H. Turf Boush [?] 10 21 1 Putty Knife 25 1 10/12 Glass 05 30 1 Sqr 9/12 Glass 05 Liquorice 05 10 </pre> Dec 3 Magnesia 10 <pre> 5 4 oz H. Syr. Sars. [?] 25 6 1 Pa(ck) Large Tacks 15 12 Liniment + Laud (short for laudenum) 25 Paregoric + Al Sassafras [?] 20 45 14 4 oz Syr. Sars. [?] 20 1 H. Tr. Valerian [?] 15 </pre> Amo card up 13022 <hr /> Amo Brot up 13022 Dec 15 1 Bot Tooth Syrup 25 <pre> 15 8 oz H. To. Gentian 35 1 Bocust Prush [?] 150 17 9 oz Cologne 45 18 1 Bot. L. S. Oil 15 22 1 H. Showgr. [?] 25 1 Bot G. Cordial 10 2 Tr. Butts + Scrs [?] 15 50 1 Bot Perfume 30 24 1 Female Syringe [?] 35 Couch Plaster [?] 05 27 1 Rubber Syringe 150 1 Bu Basilicon [?] 10 160 $ 13572 </pre> <hr /> Richd Yates in a/c with Robt Hockenhall Paid Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/d4bddda332cf6fd278fd92bfc2d07c2b.pdf 7b4b65abd3480e923dff918724b2f771 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville, Ill. December 31st, 1860. Richard Yates, Esquire To Sample & Springer Dr. 1860. Dec. 31. To amount of meat a/c from 6th Aug. to date $21.83 <pre> Receive Payment Sample & Springer </pre> <hr /> Sample & <pre> Springer Marketing Rect. </pre> Dec. 31, 1860. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sample and Springer to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-12-31 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514241 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville, Ill. December 31st, 1860. Richard Yates, Esquire To Sample & Springer Dr. 1860. Dec. 31. To amount of meat a/c from 6th Aug. to date $21.83 <pre> Receive Payment Sample & Springer </pre> <hr /> Sample & <pre> Springer Marketing Rect. </pre> Dec. 31, 1860. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/859167b03f1056d22076ba7ce4d155ee.jpg 46189cf53c2ef0f711ddbd1a722898c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kaskaskia Sketches Collection Description An account of the resource Kaskaskia was the center of French settlement in Illinois and became the capital of the French territory of Upper Louisiana. Between 1809 and 1818, the town was the capital of the Illinois Territory. These sketches depict some of the more famous landmarks in Kaskaskia. These buildings and the town were destroyed by the flooding of the Mississippi River during the nineteenth century. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 400177 Sketches, Kaskaskia Illinois Title A name given to the resource Old Catholic Church Description An account of the resource A pencil sketch of the old Catholic Church in Kaskaskia: "The old Catholic Church as it appeared in 1860. Later a belfry was added where they hung the bell that had been presented by the King of France. The dark monuments mark the last resting place of Col. and Mrs. Menard. The Mission Cross was erected in 1849 during a mission given by Rev. Pere Louis. The ceremonies were impressive. Citizens carrying the cross through Principal streets. Little girls dressed in white in advance of the Procession." Subject The topic of the resource Catholic Church Illinois--Kaskaskia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/f595eb47f0b011b32e0720fc91c8e893.jpg db18240b396fe5ea979442f48ace7b9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Collection Description An account of the resource A selection of photographs from a wide range of collections. Images in the Miscellaneous Collection include broadsides, oversized photographs, cased photographs, and images of persons from individual files in the Audio Visual Collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum holds all rights and permissions. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data lithograph color 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 39 x 27 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 400391 Politics Title A name given to the resource National Democratic Banner Description An account of the resource Political campaign banner showing the 1860 Northern Democrat Party candidate for President, Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, and Vice President, Hershel V. Johnson, of Georgia. With four different political parties represented in the 1860 Presidential Election, the Republican Party, represented by Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, received nearly forty percent of the popular vote, and sixty percent of the electoral vote. Subject The topic of the resource Political science Banners Presidents--Election Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 Johnson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1812-1880 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/f8b8e398a5536d71a2ad630fe5d3a85a.pdf 4bd185c84e2620d274c8dfc6eebf96a1 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Report of J.C. Allen's Speech. He commenced by saying that having been chosen as the standard bearer of his party for the Chief Executive Office in the State, he proposed from time to time to discufs the political questions of the day before the people of Illinois. He did not intend, however, on this occasion to speak in relation to our State affairs, but simply contented himself with say ing, that, if called to preside over the people of Ills. he should endeavor to act, as he had always done in all his public functions, so as to [subserve?] the interests of the state. He next proceeded to say that he would discufs some of the great questions that agita ted the people of the country. "The scenes pass ing around us are of no ordinary character and no common occurrence. They have a deep and abiding interest." Heretofore, he said, there had been a lack of interest on the part of the people in public questions, but it is not so now. "A spirit of inquiry was abroad in the land" of the most marked and unusual character. "The question of the Union and its perpetuation is commanding, & ought to command the serious attention of every citizen and patriot." It is different in this country from what it is in other countries: there the power generally rests in the hands of a King, here it rests upon the <hr /> shoulders of all the people alike. "The ques tion of slavery is the controlling question of the day, the one which overrides all other questions, and upon the settlement of which the exis tence of the Union depends." "Permit me here, however, to say that I am no slavery propagandist. I repeat that I am no slavery propagandist. The fact that I have preferred to settle in a Free State, is evidence that I prefer a Free State to a Slave State. But I do not believe that be cause I am a citizen of a Free State with such feelings I have a right to inter meddle in the local affairs and institutions of Sister States. I have no bus inefs to meddle with the affairs of my neigh bors. The Doctrine of Non Intervention is the great doctrine of the Constitution" and the Union can only be maintained and peace preserved by adhering to that doctrine. Our Republican friends pretend to follow the doctrines of Madison, Jefferson and others of the earlier & more peaceful times of the Republic. "Now that is not so. I deny that from the adoption of the Constitution down to 1819 & 1820 there was any intervention of Congress either to prohibit to establish slavery in the Territories of the United States, I repeat the assertion, and I defy successful contradiction of that proposition." Our Re publican friends reply that Congrefs did intervene <hr /> in the matter, because it accepted the grant of the North Western Territory from Virginia with a clause in the deed of cession excluding slavery from that Territory. Now the answer to that assertion is plain and easy. When that grant was made by Virginia, it was before the present Constitution was framed, and under the old Congrefs of the Confederation and therefore proves nothing at all. But the Republicans say that Congrefs after the adoption of our present Constitution ratified that ordinance of 1787 which had ex cluded slavery. Now that is not so. (A voice calls out for proof &c) "I was saying that when the Republicans claim that the ordinance of 1787 was ratified by the Govern ment of the United States, it was not borne out by the record of history. The act to which they refer, does not bear any such con struction, does not sustain their assertions and cannot be so construed by any rational man." Again the Republicans claim that they stand with Jefferson upon the question of slavery in the Territories. "They claim that the Federal Government has the con stitutional power, and ought to exercise it, to prohibit slavery in the Territories. Now I admit that Jefferson was opposed to the insti tuition of slavery, and that many of the other good and great men of the past (i.e. of Jefferson's time) were also opponents of the <hr /> Institution of slavery. So are thousands of others good & great men of the present time: but that is a very different thing from op posing the Constitution of the United States! Jefferson their apostle, tells us that the pas sage of the Missouri Compromise (the first inter vention of Congrefs with slavery) came upon him the sound of a Fire Bell in the night & that it tended to produce sectional parties sectional jealousy, sectional discords. That is in the 7th Vol. of Jefferson's [illegible] Yet Republicans say (grand flourish of trum pets, wagging & shaking of his head) that they stand upon the same ground with Jefferson & Madison. In 1819 & 1820, Congrefs did Intervene in the question of slavery in the Territories by the passage of the Missouri Compromise. Previous to that time, the North & South had got along harmoniously and on terms of peace & good will with each other. Since then we have had agitation and sectional strife. The earlier times of the [Country?] had been marked by peace & harmony. Afterwards we had agitation, and such men as Giddings & Lovejoy. As we have had no peace & harmony between the North & the South since the old policy was changed (i.e. Non Intervention) so we shall have none until the that policy is returned to & restored. <hr /> In 1850 the old policy was reestablished by the efforts of patriotic Whigs and Dem ocrats, of a Clay, a Webster and a [name?] &c. Then the abolitionists of the North were put down "and the Seccefsionists of the South, who opposed these Compromise Measures, were over whelmingly defeated." ([illegible] Johnson particularly by Howell Cobb) But the Republicans say the occupy the [active?] posi tion of Henry Clay upon the slavery question. Now no man who has sense enough to know what Clay's opinions were upon that question will say so. Clay denounced the Wilmot Proviso, its authors and those who advocated it. He opposed any such policy of Intervention with slavery ei ther North or South of any line, & declared that it ought to be left to the people of each [illegible] to be settled ac cording to their interests & feelings & according to the dictates of experience. This was in 1850. That was the position of Clay and it was the position of the Whig Party in 1850. It is true that Clay said that slavery did not exist in Utah or New Mexico, and could not exist there without municipal law to protect it. I doubt not that Clay was opposed to the institution of slavery, that I believe is generally admitted, but he did <hr /> not advocate Congressional Intervention against slavery (illegible] Clay on Mexican laws, Missouri Compromise, tribute to Ord of 1787 & Bill to abolish slave trade in Dist. Col. in 1850) Allen next quotes Fillmore and his Albany speech in 1856 to show that Fillmore then regarded the Reps as an aggressive, sectional party & to be condemned by all good citizens. His position not right. Is there any thing, he asks, in the conduct of the Republican Party during the past 4 years, to cause Fillmore men to change their position & attitude toward the Republican Party? To cause them to join this Sectional Party of the North? The Reps talk about preserving the Union, and in their Platform at Chicago say the Union must & shall be preserved (Allen speaks of this with derision). They also declare for a Protective Tariff for the sick Ironmongers of Pennsylvania & for the Wool [Growers?] of the West. They try thus to catch men of all opinions, interests & sentiments. About Jefferson again - Allen returns to him in no logical order or connection, & says that "Jefferson advocated the dis [illegible] of slavery over a large Territory, because it tended in his opinion to amelior ate & extinguish the Institution. But the Reps say, as Senator Wilson says they want to restrict slavery, on order that they may <hr /> "smother it out". The Reps want Republican Congressmen to pass laws for the Territories, but the people can much better regulate their affairs for themselves. Yet Reps deny this position. Still they know Congrefs permits the Territories to pafs laws about larceny, robbery, & other crimes, about the relation of husband & wife, guardian & Ward, & they don't object to it. But they contend that the people of the same Territories are not fit to determine what relations shall subsist between a white & a nigger"! (Big point and crazy applause among the "Bare Foots") But the Reps say slavery is aggressive and must be checked. Yet when the Union was formed there were 12 Slave States and only one Free State. Why did not the 12 Slave States "crush out" the single Free State? Now we have 18 Free States & but 15 Slave States. Does that look oppres sive? Most of our emigration goes to the Territories from the North & will do so. "My competitor, Yates, a good fellow by the way, I am glad to say, but I believe not much of a Politician, charges that the South tried to force slavery upon Kansas through Atchinson & the Blue Lodges of Mo! but the fact is that anti Slavery men from the North went there with Sharpe's Rifles to drive Pro slavery men out & Fire Eaters from the <hr /> South with Revolvers to drive the Abolitionists out. "And Lincoln who had no word of praise for our gallant soldiers in Mexico, and who de nounced the Mexican War in which they fought as unjust & unconstitutional and all our brave soldiers as mur ders by implication (exact words) could subscribe $50 to help "Jim Lane" drive the Pro Slavery men out of Kansas! But he could neither thank nor give money to our suffering & destitute soldiers! Allen now eulogizes Douglas to the skies, and says that after the ordeal through which Douglas has passed since '54, [illegible] no man, no Republican can doubt his integrity, his sincerity in his public cause. On this point, Allen gets off much [illegible] gas, & bombastic high falutin that "ne'er can be repeated". Gates says the Demo cratic Party is dead. That is an old story, and was told when Jefferson lived, & Jackson & Polk & Pierce. It has been pro nounced dead many times, but it still lives yet. "Its principles are eternal as truth itself". (Here Allen clapped the Cli max, got choked for more eloquence to finish his sentence, & stopped short!) Yates says Jackson went in for Liberty, Equal ity & Fraternity, & that such was Democracy then in his time. So it is now. <hr /> When the Reps go in for Liberty, Equality & Fraternity, they mean Liberty, Equality and Fraternity with the "niggers" & not with their own race: but the Democrats go in for these doctrines for white men. (noisy applause & drunken yells here) He does not intend to attack Yates personally or say any thing disrespectful of him, but in 1849 Yates was elected to Legislature from Morgan County. He took an oath to support the Constitution of Ills. which required the Legislature to pafs a law excluding Negroes from the state yet he voted against a law to carry into effect this provision of the Constitution which he had sworn to support. "A [name?] [illegible] offered resolutions denouncing our Free Negro or Black laws as unchristian and disgrace ful, and Yates voted for it. Yet these laws! Kept negroes from voting, sitting on Juries, intermarrying with whites &c! He (Yates) made a speech in Congrefs in which he denounced the slave holders of the South as robbers and guilty of almost every species of crime! "If these facts do not prove Yates to be an Abolitionist, then there never was one" After making such a speech in Congrefs he came back to this District with 10,000 Republican majority & was rejected. The rest of the speech was made up of ridicule of [illegible] and of his [illegible] &c &c J. C. Allen Speech at Jacksonville Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report on James C. Allen Speech Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514242 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Jacksonville, Illinois Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Report of J.C. Allen's Speech. He commenced by saying that having been chosen as the standard bearer of his party for the Chief Executive Office in the State, he proposed from time to time to discufs the political questions of the day before the people of Illinois. He did not intend, however, on this occasion to speak in relation to our State affairs, but simply contented himself with say ing, that, if called to preside over the people of Ills. he should endeavor to act, as he had always done in all his public functions, so as to [subserve?] the interests of the state. He next proceeded to say that he would discufs some of the great questions that agita ted the people of the country. "The scenes pass ing around us are of no ordinary character and no common occurrence. They have a deep and abiding interest." Heretofore, he said, there had been a lack of interest on the part of the people in public questions, but it is not so now. "A spirit of inquiry was abroad in the land" of the most marked and unusual character. "The question of the Union and its perpetuation is commanding, & ought to command the serious attention of every citizen and patriot." It is different in this country from what it is in other countries: there the power generally rests in the hands of a King, here it rests upon the <hr /> shoulders of all the people alike. "The ques tion of slavery is the controlling question of the day, the one which overrides all other questions, and upon the settlement of which the exis tence of the Union depends." "Permit me here, however, to say that I am no slavery propagandist. I repeat that I am no slavery propagandist. The fact that I have preferred to settle in a Free State, is evidence that I prefer a Free State to a Slave State. But I do not believe that be cause I am a citizen of a Free State with such feelings I have a right to inter meddle in the local affairs and institutions of Sister States. I have no bus inefs to meddle with the affairs of my neigh bors. The Doctrine of Non Intervention is the great doctrine of the Constitution" and the Union can only be maintained and peace preserved by adhering to that doctrine. Our Republican friends pretend to follow the doctrines of Madison, Jefferson and others of the earlier & more peaceful times of the Republic. "Now that is not so. I deny that from the adoption of the Constitution down to 1819 & 1820 there was any intervention of Congress either to prohibit to establish slavery in the Territories of the United States, I repeat the assertion, and I defy successful contradiction of that proposition." Our Re publican friends reply that Congrefs did intervene <hr /> in the matter, because it accepted the grant of the North Western Territory from Virginia with a clause in the deed of cession excluding slavery from that Territory. Now the answer to that assertion is plain and easy. When that grant was made by Virginia, it was before the present Constitution was framed, and under the old Congrefs of the Confederation and therefore proves nothing at all. But the Republicans say that Congrefs after the adoption of our present Constitution ratified that ordinance of 1787 which had ex cluded slavery. Now that is not so. (A voice calls out for proof &c) "I was saying that when the Republicans claim that the ordinance of 1787 was ratified by the Govern ment of the United States, it was not borne out by the record of history. The act to which they refer, does not bear any such con struction, does not sustain their assertions and cannot be so construed by any rational man." Again the Republicans claim that they stand with Jefferson upon the question of slavery in the Territories. "They claim that the Federal Government has the con stitutional power, and ought to exercise it, to prohibit slavery in the Territories. Now I admit that Jefferson was opposed to the insti tuition of slavery, and that many of the other good and great men of the past (i.e. of Jefferson's time) were also opponents of the <hr /> Institution of slavery. So are thousands of others good & great men of the present time: but that is a very different thing from op posing the Constitution of the United States! Jefferson their apostle, tells us that the pas sage of the Missouri Compromise (the first inter vention of Congrefs with slavery) came upon him the sound of a Fire Bell in the night & that it tended to produce sectional parties sectional jealousy, sectional discords. That is in the 7th Vol. of Jefferson's [illegible] Yet Republicans say (grand flourish of trum pets, wagging & shaking of his head) that they stand upon the same ground with Jefferson & Madison. In 1819 & 1820, Congrefs did Intervene in the question of slavery in the Territories by the passage of the Missouri Compromise. Previous to that time, the North & South had got along harmoniously and on terms of peace & good will with each other. Since then we have had agitation and sectional strife. The earlier times of the [Country?] had been marked by peace & harmony. Afterwards we had agitation, and such men as Giddings & Lovejoy. As we have had no peace & harmony between the North & the South since the old policy was changed (i.e. Non Intervention) so we shall have none until the that policy is returned to & restored. <hr /> In 1850 the old policy was reestablished by the efforts of patriotic Whigs and Dem ocrats, of a Clay, a Webster and a [name?] &c. Then the abolitionists of the North were put down "and the Seccefsionists of the South, who opposed these Compromise Measures, were over whelmingly defeated." ([illegible] Johnson particularly by Howell Cobb) But the Republicans say the occupy the [active?] posi tion of Henry Clay upon the slavery question. Now no man who has sense enough to know what Clay's opinions were upon that question will say so. Clay denounced the Wilmot Proviso, its authors and those who advocated it. He opposed any such policy of Intervention with slavery ei ther North or South of any line, & declared that it ought to be left to the people of each [illegible] to be settled ac cording to their interests & feelings & according to the dictates of experience. This was in 1850. That was the position of Clay and it was the position of the Whig Party in 1850. It is true that Clay said that slavery did not exist in Utah or New Mexico, and could not exist there without municipal law to protect it. I doubt not that Clay was opposed to the institution of slavery, that I believe is generally admitted, but he did <hr /> not advocate Congressional Intervention against slavery (illegible] Clay on Mexican laws, Missouri Compromise, tribute to Ord of 1787 & Bill to abolish slave trade in Dist. Col. in 1850) Allen next quotes Fillmore and his Albany speech in 1856 to show that Fillmore then regarded the Reps as an aggressive, sectional party & to be condemned by all good citizens. His position not right. Is there any thing, he asks, in the conduct of the Republican Party during the past 4 years, to cause Fillmore men to change their position & attitude toward the Republican Party? To cause them to join this Sectional Party of the North? The Reps talk about preserving the Union, and in their Platform at Chicago say the Union must & shall be preserved (Allen speaks of this with derision). They also declare for a Protective Tariff for the sick Ironmongers of Pennsylvania & for the Wool [Growers?] of the West. They try thus to catch men of all opinions, interests & sentiments. About Jefferson again - Allen returns to him in no logical order or connection, & says that "Jefferson advocated the dis [illegible] of slavery over a large Territory, because it tended in his opinion to amelior ate & extinguish the Institution. But the Reps say, as Senator Wilson says they want to restrict slavery, on order that they may <hr /> "smother it out". The Reps want Republican Congressmen to pass laws for the Territories, but the people can much better regulate their affairs for themselves. Yet Reps deny this position. Still they know Congrefs permits the Territories to pafs laws about larceny, robbery, & other crimes, about the relation of husband & wife, guardian & Ward, & they don't object to it. But they contend that the people of the same Territories are not fit to determine what relations shall subsist between a white & a nigger"! (Big point and crazy applause among the "Bare Foots") But the Reps say slavery is aggressive and must be checked. Yet when the Union was formed there were 12 Slave States and only one Free State. Why did not the 12 Slave States "crush out" the single Free State? Now we have 18 Free States & but 15 Slave States. Does that look oppres sive? Most of our emigration goes to the Territories from the North & will do so. "My competitor, Yates, a good fellow by the way, I am glad to say, but I believe not much of a Politician, charges that the South tried to force slavery upon Kansas through Atchinson & the Blue Lodges of Mo! but the fact is that anti Slavery men from the North went there with Sharpe's Rifles to drive Pro slavery men out & Fire Eaters from the <hr /> South with Revolvers to drive the Abolitionists out. "And Lincoln who had no word of praise for our gallant soldiers in Mexico, and who de nounced the Mexican War in which they fought as unjust & unconstitutional and all our brave soldiers as mur ders by implication (exact words) could subscribe $50 to help "Jim Lane" drive the Pro Slavery men out of Kansas! But he could neither thank nor give money to our suffering & destitute soldiers! Allen now eulogizes Douglas to the skies, and says that after the ordeal through which Douglas has passed since '54, [illegible] no man, no Republican can doubt his integrity, his sincerity in his public cause. On this point, Allen gets off much [illegible] gas, & bombastic high falutin that "ne'er can be repeated". Gates says the Demo cratic Party is dead. That is an old story, and was told when Jefferson lived, & Jackson & Polk & Pierce. It has been pro nounced dead many times, but it still lives yet. "Its principles are eternal as truth itself". (Here Allen clapped the Cli max, got choked for more eloquence to finish his sentence, & stopped short!) Yates says Jackson went in for Liberty, Equal ity & Fraternity, & that such was Democracy then in his time. So it is now. <hr /> When the Reps go in for Liberty, Equality & Fraternity, they mean Liberty, Equality and Fraternity with the "niggers" & not with their own race: but the Democrats go in for these doctrines for white men. (noisy applause & drunken yells here) He does not intend to attack Yates personally or say any thing disrespectful of him, but in 1849 Yates was elected to Legislature from Morgan County. He took an oath to support the Constitution of Ills. which required the Legislature to pafs a law excluding Negroes from the state yet he voted against a law to carry into effect this provision of the Constitution which he had sworn to support. "A [name?] [illegible] offered resolutions denouncing our Free Negro or Black laws as unchristian and disgrace ful, and Yates voted for it. Yet these laws! Kept negroes from voting, sitting on Juries, intermarrying with whites &c! He (Yates) made a speech in Congrefs in which he denounced the slave holders of the South as robbers and guilty of almost every species of crime! "If these facts do not prove Yates to be an Abolitionist, then there never was one" After making such a speech in Congrefs he came back to this District with 10,000 Republican majority & was rejected. The rest of the speech was made up of ridicule of [illegible] and of his [illegible] &c &c J. C. Allen Speech at Jacksonville Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/e5e50dfdb7029a740e08ab51d56aa82a.pdf ca10bce87027a67edc506ba81f5693e8 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. [1860] Saturday evening Hon Richard Yates My dear sir your kind note came to hand this evening. I cannot doubt that you are quite right in characterizing the [questions?] of the races as "the great [questions?]" It will be found "the great [questions?]" practically, whether we look at it as philosophers, as statesmen or as divines. And in my humble opinion as you move these intricate, no [means?] will be found prepared to act with his hart in either capacity - in any part of the civilized world till he has most deeply pondered these great questions of the ages: the question of the races. But with us Americans in every relation & hope of social life, it is, one might almost say the only question: for we have practically solved nearly all others. Shall we then solve this also? I know given both heart and head will say with [illegible] - "yes - yes we will - God willing we will" - Therefore <hr /> most deeply regretted that the efforts of your family [illegible] goes from the lecture and that I was [illegible] deprived of the benefit of conferring with you in regard to it as I had desired. As to my [manuscript?] it was written in a space of two or three evenings in a single week and is so mixed up & peculiar in its structure (designed only for myself) that I do not think it could be of use enough to you to keep the trouble of deciphering it. And as regards repeating the lecture here it seems to me that having once without disguise urged the subject upon the notice and consideration or actions of my friends, it would be liable to injurious misconstriction should I attempt to repeat it - and even if my friends should request it, I fear that others might construe it into a sort of partisan effort on their part, to force the thing upon the public mind. Still I suppose that the subject might possibly be put in such a shape that no ill use <hr /> or ill influence could arise from it. While on my own part I do not disguise the fact that I am still very anxious that yourself and Dr. [Fesiley?] and several other gentleman of high intelligence who were not present before should hear it, and consider that practical use, if any, can now be made of it, or if the general thought which it suggests nor am I at all unwilling to gratify any who may wish to hear it again - should their numbers be sufficient to justify it, and the influences against misuse & misconstruction properly guarded against - For whether this view of the slavery questions is true or false - I am fully convinced that it is the view in substance of the all that lies in reality at the bottom of the American heart - and that the political heart that bases its action and effort [honestly? and heartily?] upon it will swoop up two thirds of the votes of the whole people both north & south, in spite of all their opponents can do - and furnish the [illegible] at the [illegible] the most [illegible] & hopeful solutions of the slavery questions that the nature of the case <hr /> admits of - shall that party be the Republican party ? I hope so: for I think they deserve it - but if so now is the time for them to be [illegible] the minds of the people. With there principles of [philosophy?] & statesmanship, which is the next campaign they will need to put to practical and triumphant use - Now I say - is the time to begin - the public mind is quiet and [illegible] and open to convictions - And the true [philosophy?] of the whole subject may with little effort be put through the land, if all good men will take hold of it, without opposition or alarm - I can of course do [but?] very little. But that little I am willing I hope to do. But if I do a little, and you do a little and all do a little it will amount to a great deal before the next election & we shall revolutionise the evils of our country & truly & [philosophically?] & humanely save the Union - not [illegible] & [illegible]. I shall [deliver?] this discussion in Hillsboro by request on the 7 of April and should a way open on my return on the 8 of April could do so in Springfield if desirable. Most truly yours J B. Turner Along edge of paper - PS Do I [illegible] of [illegible] hand on this [puddle?] of words? I thought when I sat down to write but a word as Mr. [illegible] had spoken to me this evening on the same topic. I shall send that [advice?] by him Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 01 (June-December, 1860) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514244 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. [1860] Saturday evening Hon Richard Yates My dear sir your kind note came to hand this evening. I cannot doubt that you are quite right in characterizing the [questions?] of the races as "the great [questions?]" It will be found "the great [questions?]" practically, whether we look at it as philosophers, as statesmen or as divines. And in my humble opinion as you move these intricate, no [means?] will be found prepared to act with his hart in either capacity - in any part of the civilized world till he has most deeply pondered these great questions of the ages: the question of the races. But with us Americans in every relation & hope of social life, it is, one might almost say the only question: for we have practically solved nearly all others. Shall we then solve this also? I know given both heart and head will say with [illegible] - "yes - yes we will - God willing we will" - Therefore <hr /> most deeply regretted that the efforts of your family [illegible] goes from the lecture and that I was [illegible] deprived of the benefit of conferring with you in regard to it as I had desired. As to my [manuscript?] it was written in a space of two or three evenings in a single week and is so mixed up & peculiar in its structure (designed only for myself) that I do not think it could be of use enough to you to keep the trouble of deciphering it. And as regards repeating the lecture here it seems to me that having once without disguise urged the subject upon the notice and consideration or actions of my friends, it would be liable to injurious misconstriction should I attempt to repeat it - and even if my friends should request it, I fear that others might construe it into a sort of partisan effort on their part, to force the thing upon the public mind. Still I suppose that the subject might possibly be put in such a shape that no ill use <hr /> or ill influence could arise from it. While on my own part I do not disguise the fact that I am still very anxious that yourself and Dr. [Fesiley?] and several other gentleman of high intelligence who were not present before should hear it, and consider that practical use, if any, can now be made of it, or if the general thought which it suggests nor am I at all unwilling to gratify any who may wish to hear it again - should their numbers be sufficient to justify it, and the influences against misuse & misconstruction properly guarded against - For whether this view of the slavery questions is true or false - I am fully convinced that it is the view in substance of the all that lies in reality at the bottom of the American heart - and that the political heart that bases its action and effort [honestly? and heartily?] upon it will swoop up two thirds of the votes of the whole people both north & south, in spite of all their opponents can do - and furnish the [illegible] at the [illegible] the most [illegible] & hopeful solutions of the slavery questions that the nature of the case <hr /> admits of - shall that party be the Republican party ? I hope so: for I think they deserve it - but if so now is the time for them to be [illegible] the minds of the people. With there principles of [philosophy?] & statesmanship, which is the next campaign they will need to put to practical and triumphant use - Now I say - is the time to begin - the public mind is quiet and [illegible] and open to convictions - And the true [philosophy?] of the whole subject may with little effort be put through the land, if all good men will take hold of it, without opposition or alarm - I can of course do [but?] very little. But that little I am willing I hope to do. But if I do a little, and you do a little and all do a little it will amount to a great deal before the next election & we shall revolutionise the evils of our country & truly & [philosophically?] & humanely save the Union - not [illegible] & [illegible]. I shall [deliver?] this discussion in Hillsboro by request on the 7 of April and should a way open on my return on the 8 of April could do so in Springfield if desirable. Most truly yours J B. Turner Along edge of paper - PS Do I [illegible] of [illegible] hand on this [puddle?] of words? I thought when I sat down to write but a word as Mr. [illegible] had spoken to me this evening on the same topic. I shall send that [advice?] by him Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/a68feaa24eadb8057ea8eee11c43fb02.jpg c937b4d8fb7d9d614e691aa96409ca90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carter Family Collection Subject The topic of the resource The Carter Family Collection contains photographs donated by Lois M. Johnston of William Price Carter and Martha Mayes Carter and their children. Joesph Newton Carter, their fourth child, served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1878 unti 1882. He won election to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1894 making him the youngest member elected to the court. Carter servd as the Chief Justice from 1898-1899. Photographs in this collection include portraits of William and Martha Carter and their children Joesph, Price, and Malinda. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data carte de visite b&w 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 10 x 6 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 405444 Carter Family Collection I-4909 Title A name given to the resource William Price Carter Description An account of the resource Tuscola resident William Price Carter, father of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joseph N. Carter, sits for a portrait. Subject The topic of the resource Carter, William Price, 1811-1875 Illinois--Tuscola Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/d1a7f12d6bb4c1f328b80076c28ce8a7.jpg 99d2fa598f0cd207abc86ddca84000cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carter Family Collection Subject The topic of the resource The Carter Family Collection contains photographs donated by Lois M. Johnston of William Price Carter and Martha Mayes Carter and their children. Joesph Newton Carter, their fourth child, served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1878 unti 1882. He won election to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1894 making him the youngest member elected to the court. Carter servd as the Chief Justice from 1898-1899. Photographs in this collection include portraits of William and Martha Carter and their children Joesph, Price, and Malinda. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data carte de visite b&w 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 10 x 6 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 405445 Carter Family Collection I-4910 Title A name given to the resource Martha Patsey Mayes Carter Description An account of the resource Tuscola resident Martha Patsey Mayes Carter, mother of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joseph N. Carter, poses for a portrait wearing ribbons in her hair. Subject The topic of the resource Carter, Martha Patsey Mayes, 1809-1890 Illinois--Tuscola Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/805471b07f3a239453bc171720d9d908.jpg 9dc2dbc148c3efb9c120359d769a5cb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monticello College Collection Subject The topic of the resource Women's colleges Universities and colleges Monticello College Monticello Female Seminary Haskell, Harriet, 1835-1907 Illinois--Godfrey Godfrey, Benjamin, 1794-1862 Description An account of the resource Monticello College first began as the Monticello Female Seminary in 1838. Founded by Captain Benjamin Godfrey to provide education for women, the school offered two years of classes for attendees based on the idea that “if you educate a man you educate an individual; educate a woman and you educate a whole family.” Godfrey selected Reverend Theron Baldwin to serve as the first head of the Monticello Female Seminary. In 1867 Harriet Haskell became principal, a position she held until her death in 1907.  On November 4, 1888, a fire broke out in the building and consumed the entire structure. Ms. Haskell and the school's Board of Trustees successfully fundraised for a new building and rebuilt the school in two years. The school's leadership made the decision to close the school in 1970 with the final class graduating in 1971. Lewis and Clark Community College completed the purchase of the Monticello College campus in 1972. The finding aid for the Monticello College (Godfrey, IL) Records at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library may be found at <a href="https://illinois.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/545" title="Monticello College (Godfrey, IL) Records">https://illinois.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/545</a>. The finding aid for the photographic Monticello College Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum may be found at <a href="https://illinois.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/3/resources/4702" title="Monticello College Collection ">https://illinois.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/3/resources/4702</a>. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Manuscript: BC466 Audiovisual: AV-01-08-Monticello Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1830 - 1970 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data engraving b&w 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 14 x 22 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 402207 Monticello College Collection Monticello College Collection Photo Album Title A name given to the resource Monticello Ladies Seminary Description An account of the resource A drawing shows several walkways on the Monticello Ladies Seminary campus leading to the main building. Subject The topic of the resource Monticello Female Seminary College buildings Illinois--Godfrey Women's colleges Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-XX-XX Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/acb68be7e4a2aa2c450b37eec470da98.pdf 098c36cbb681e75b25f3f36e74553d59 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper and ink 17 p 24 x 17 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 300914 T1860-2-MISC Title A name given to the resource Poem by Edwin Booth to Mary Devlin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Booth, Edwin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860? Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource Mary Devlin onced owned this autograph album titled "Album of Pearls" bound in decorative tooled leather. The album includes a poem of three stanzas written to her by her future husband, Edwin Booth. Booth and Devlin were married on July 17, 1860. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/fd08f87ef43154d673f03a3fc58baa07.pdf e264c6bc67ab27ae07c39178b4ccfcf8 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Abraham Lincoln [illegible text underneath engraving] Geo P. Davis Esq Beloit Wis Bloom [balance of stamping missing] J ILL June 14 186 [missing final digit] Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper 1 p 8 x 14 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 300281 T1860?-MISC Title A name given to the resource Envelope addressed to George P. Davis of Beloit, Wisc. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mendel, Edward Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860? Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource This envelope is addressed to George P. Davis, Esq. of Beloit, Wisconsin, with a Bloomington, Illinois, postmark. The bright yellow envelope is illustrated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln engraved by Mendel. The stamp once affixed to the envelope is missing. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Abraham Lincoln [illegible text underneath engraving] Geo P. Davis Esq Beloit Wis Bloom [balance of stamping missing] J ILL June 14 186 [missing final digit] Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 http://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/fa254f54693a26d5fd98fed672147890.pdf f75f6a0353af3ac4fd7b094681c5cb6a Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. If you accept the decree - I will consider you as doing so subject to understanding with Mr. G. [illegible] below Mr. McGalliard Dr Sir: I did not receive the papers until late last night and consequently have written the decree with some haste but I believe it is sufficient The Decree could not be rendered by consent because of the minor - I have therefore written the decree as upon parol evidence offered to the Court and as being the result of his conclusions upon the facts - If the Judge should hesitate to render such a decree without hearing the evidence - you may then bring my letter or say from me that I am satisfied that it is all right - If he will not render the decree without then submit to him the evidence - I do not think the decree would be valid except in the former [chance?] It was the understanding between Mr Gillett myself that this decree was not to be executed until I consented to its execution - unlefs that consent was unreasonably withheld - Please advise me when this decree is approved & filed that I may inform Mr Whittle Yours truly John T Stuart <hr /> Mr McGalliard Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper and ink 2 p 25 x 20 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 300300 T1861-MISC Title A name given to the resource John Todd Stuart to Mr. McGalliard Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart, John Todd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Description An account of the resource John Todd Stuart writes to Mr. McGalliard on Stuart, Edwards, and Brown Law Firm stationary regarding a legal case. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Percent Needs Review The percentage of pages with Needs Review status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 200