Executive Office, Iowa, Nov. 15, 1860.
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President-Elect of the United States:
Dear Sir — Permit
me to congratulate you, and I most heartily do, upon the result of the recent
Presidential election, and to express the earnest hope that your administration
may prove as useful to our country and as honorable to yourself as you yourself
can desire.
Very respectfully,
Samuel J. Kirkwood.
SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 104
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