Jesse D. Bright to Daniel S. Dickinson, July 26, 1856

WASHINGTON, July 26, 1856.

DEAR GOVERNOR—Would it be possible for you to attend our great mass convention, to be holden on the Tippecanoe Battle Ground, September 3, 1856? It will be a monster meeting, and your presence would be of infinite service.

I have received several letters urging me to beg you to attend. Do go, if possible. Let me hear from you. Your friend,

JESSE D. BRIGHT.

SOURCE: John R. Dickinson, Editor, Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, Vol. 2, p. 494

Edwin M. Stanton to Abraham Lincoln, March 25, 1865 – 8 p.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         

Washington City, March 25, 1865 — 8 p.m.

To the PRESIDENT:

Your telegram and Parke's report* of the “scrimmage” this morning are received. The rebel rooster looks a little the worse, as he could not hold the fence. We have nothing new here. Now you are away everything is quiet and the tormentors vanished. I hope you will remember General Harrison's advice to his men at Tippecanoe, that they “can see as well a little farther off.”

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

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* See next, post.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume 46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 109