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

Steve, I see by a footnote to this letter that Lincoln wrote another letter to Delahay on April 16 implicitly asking for his assistance at the convention, which would be fairly considered an expenditure of money for a political cause.

I quote from Lincoln's April 14 letter to Delahay:

"I see by the despatches that since you wrote, Kansas has appointed Delegates and instructed them for Seward. Don't stir them up to anger, but come along to the convention, & I will do as I said about expenses."

And, footnote 2 to this letter reads: "Lincoln took the hint that he should have 'some discreet friends' at the convention early."