Executive Mansion.
Washington, Oct. 13,
1864.
MY DEAR NICOLAY:
I suppose you are happy enough over the elections to do
without letters. Here are two. I hope they are duns to remind you that you are
mortal.
Indiana is simply glorious. The surprise of this good thing
is its chief delight. Pennsylvania has done pretty well. We have a little
majority on home vote as yet, and will get a fair vote from the soldiers, and
do better in November. The wild estimates of Forney and Cameron, founded on no count
or thorough canvass, are of course not fulfilled, but we did not expect them to
be.
Judge Taney died last night. I have not heard anything this
morning about the succession. It is a matter of the greatest personal
importance that Mr. Lincoln has ever decided.
Winter Davis’ clique was badly scooped out in the mayoralty
election at Baltimore yesterday. Chapman (regular Union) got nearly all the
votes cast. . . .
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 237; Michael Burlingame, Editor, At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War
Correspondence and Selected Writings, p. 97
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