State of Iowa
Senate Chamber,
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb 25, 1860.
Dear Sir
I wrote you
immediately after the Convention. As near as I can tell, I wrote you that our
Delegates were not instructed but left free to act as they might think best
when in Conventions at Chicago. I am not a Delegate but I probably had as much
to do with making them as them any one else and am Satisfied that a large Maj
of them would vote for Seward if their vote would elect him not that
personally he is their special choice but because of the locofoco abuse of him
but I do not think that any of the Delegate think that he ought to be
the nominee of the Chicago Convention. If a vote had been taken by the
Delegates when appointed, a large Maj of them with the lights then before them a
large Maj would have voted for Cameron for President and Your Self for Vice
President This vote would have been given under the impression that Cameron
Could Carry Pa and that probably no other Person could. Now I hope in this we
are Mistaken. And I hope that before the Convention Comes off Such will be Made
Manifest. Our Delegates I am sure would rather vote for you than any other Man
in the U. S. especially if the Arch Demagogue Douglass should be the Nominee of
the South.
I received a letter
from Col Curtis who thinks your chance for nomination as good at leat as Any
other Man. But all will depend on Pa. New Jersey Ill & Ia At least I think
so. Our Delegation will be influenced more by Col Warren than any other man in
Iowa. Polatics change – and the influence of Men change. the Cols star is now
in the ascendant. I hope that you will correspond with him if you have not
already done so. Have you Seen his Article on Edward Bates address to the “Springfield
Republican”? If you have not hunt it up. It was copied into the “Hawk Eye” and
probably by other papers. If it does not use up Bates’ prospect I am mistaken.
I wish that you
could write me the prospects of your Nomination for President. I shall be at
the Chicago Convention.
I want you to be
sure and correspond with Warren He will contribute a large a large Share
towards the nomination of Some one. his acquaintance is extensive & he will
take an active part in the canvass He will be one of the State Electors for
Iowa
I have confidence
to believe that no one in our State has more influence with him than I have. I
go to Chicago as his guest And if there is any thing that I can do for you
I am ready to do it all that I want is to know how to serve you
Please write to me
and you had better direct to Keokuk as I will leave here in a few days
Yours truly
Hawkins Taylor
SOURCE: Abraham Lincoln Papers
at the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
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