The Lincolns in Kentucky -Video

[David Lockmiller]

David, Thanks for the reference. I wished Donald had left a source for that. Delahay, was a colorful figure!

It's from a March 16, 1860 letter Lincoln wrote to Delahay:

https://books.google.com/books?id=LQjla5...22&f=false

Thanks, Steve, for the post. It discloses an interesting disparity with the letter and the conditional promise that Lincoln made in the March 16, 1860 letter. Lincoln wrote to Delahay: "If you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago, I will furnish one hundred dollars to bear the expenses of the trip." Factually speaking, Lincoln did much more than keeping his promise.

My post #8 reads: "(As it turned out, Delahay was not chosen as a Kansas delegate but went to Chicago anyhow to root for Lincoln, who paid him the money he had promised.)"