Abraham Lincoln's cabinet . had been Whigs, while the four in theopposite parallel column were democrats in their Prin-ciples and convictions, though Mr. Chase never identifiedhimself with the democratic organization. He was dis-tinctly anti-slavery, but concurred with the democrats insupporting the rights of the States and an advocate of astrict construction of the Constitution. Nathaniel (Norman) B. Judd of Chicago was an activeand influential politician of Illinois, and for many yearsa leading member of the legislature of that state. Hewas also a member of the Republican National Committee,
Abraham Lincoln's cabinet . had been Whigs, while the four in theopposite parallel column were democrats in their Prin-ciples and convictions, though Mr. Chase never identifiedhimself with the democratic organization. He was dis-tinctly anti-slavery, but concurred with the democrats insupporting the rights of the States and an advocate of astrict construction of the Constitution. Nathaniel (Norman) B. Judd of Chicago was an activeand influential politician of Illinois, and for many yearsa leading member of the legislature of that state. Hewas also a member of the Republican National Committee,and probably did more than any other individual to bringforward and secure the nomination of Mr. Lincoln, forwhom he had high regard and friendship, which wasfully reciprocated. The President informed me thathe had, personally a stronger desire that Judd shouldbe associated with him in the administration than anyone else but he was from Illinois, and there were politicaland other circumstances which intervened. Instead of a. incolnmAore Bulletin of The Lineoln National Life Foundation . . Dr. R. Gerald McMurtry, EditorPublished each month by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 1585 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA March, 1970 Recent Library-Museum Acquisitions At the end of every year a record iscompiled of the acquisitions of ourLincoln Library-museum. Some of the1968-1969 acquisitions are consideredto be of major importance in the fieldof research: such as three folios ofletters, documents and signatures rela-tive to the ancestral Virginia Lin-colns; a document by Benjamin Helmof Hardin County, Kentucky, dated1809, which mentions Thomas Lincolnas a guard of prisoners; documentssigned by the Sixteenth President;letters addressed to Lincoln; auto-graphs of Presidents; legal documentsin the handwriting of Stephen and letters and documents ofLincolns contemporaries and associ-ates. One particularly fine acquisition isa Woodford County (Illinois) c
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