. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 . omination a fixed fact. Myopinion — if my opinion is of any consequence in this case,in which it is no business of mine to interfere — remains un-changed, that running an independent candidate againstLovejoy will not do ; that it will result in nothing but disas-ter all round. In the first place, whoever so runs will bebeaten and will be spotted for life ; in the second place,while the race is in progress, he will be under the strongesttemptation to trade with the Democrats, and to favor theelection of certain of their friends to the Legislature;

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. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 . omination a fixed fact. Myopinion — if my opinion is of any consequence in this case,in which it is no business of mine to interfere — remains un-changed, that running an independent candidate againstLovejoy will not do ; that it will result in nothing but disas-ter all round. In the first place, whoever so runs will bebeaten and will be spotted for life ; in the second place,while the race is in progress, he will be under the strongesttemptation to trade with the Democrats, and to favor theelection of certain of their friends to the Legislature; thirdly,I shall be held responsible for it, and Republican membersof the Legislature, who are partial to Lovejoy, will for thatpurpose oppose us ; and, lastly, it will in the end lose us theDistrict altogether. There is no safe way but a convention ;and if in that convention, upon a common platform which allare willing to stand upon, one who has been known as an ft- fC Q^^^-w ~ , «?? t-„ ^~/&±~-j.

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