Mary was a leaker

[Steve]

Here's a link to page 5 of the February 14, 1862 edition of the New York Tribune (in a Feb. 13 dispatch):

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/s...d-1/seq-5/

In the middle of Column 3 under the title "THE PREMATURE PUBLICATION OF THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE" is the story which clearly indicates that Lincoln appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. (Although it doesn't report what Lincoln says as in the Philadelphia Inquirer account.)