LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, PRESIDENT . AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN," WITH THICK FLOURISH UNDERNEATH) TO JOHN BENNETT OF PETERSBURG; SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 5 AUGUST 1837. 1 PAGE, 4TO, 248 X 201 MM. (9 13/16 X 7 15/16 IN.), WITH INTEGRAL ADDRESS LEAF ADDRESSED IN LINCOLN'S HAND: "JOHN BENNETT ESQ. PETERSBURG ILLS. P[E]R MR. BOICE," NEATLY SILKED, PAPER EVENLY YELLOWED, OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION. LINCOLN IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE An early letter in which Lincoln reports, to the best of his limited knowledge, on the passage of certain bills he introduced in the state legislature regarding the new town of Petersburg and a new road proposed to be built to it. He writes: "Mr. [Thomas? or Ninian W.?] Edwards tells me that you wish to know, whether the act to which your town incorporation provision was attached, passed into a law. It did. You can organize under the general incorporation law as soon as you choose. "I also tacked a provision on to a fellow's bill to authorize the relocation of the road from Salem down to your town; but I am not certain whether or not the bill passed; neither do I suppose I can ascertain before the laws will be published. If it is a law, Bowling Green, Bennett Abell and yourself are appointed to make the change. "No news. No excitement except a little about the election of Monday next. I suppose, of course, our friend Dr. [Anson G.] Henry stands no chance in your 'diggings.' Your friend and humble servant...." John Bennett the recipent, was the proprietor of a hotel in the recently established town of Petersburg, not far from New Salem, one of six frontier townsites which Lincoln had surveyed during his brief career as surveyor. Petersburg proved an auspicious location and grew at the expense of New Salem, which was almost deserted not long afterwards. On 13 July, Lincoln had introduced a bill to establish a state road from Beardstown to Petersburg, naming Henry McHenry, Solomon Penny and Myram Penny as commissioners "to view, mark and locate a road from Beardstown...to Petersburg" (full text in Collected Works , ed. R.P. Basler, 1:82-83). That bill was approved and six days later in the same session a bill proposing to relocate part of another state road was introduced, to which Lincoln, as he reports to Bennett in this letter, "tacked on" a provision which stipulated that "the inhabitants of the towm of Petersburg, in Sangamon county," might "be incorporated according to the provision of the general town incorporation act" even though "said town may not contain one hundred and fifty inhabitants" as prescribed by the earlier law" (Basler 1:85-86). In the original manuscript text of the bill (at the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield), this appended article is in Lincoln's hand "on the verso of the sheet containing sections 1 and 4." Lincoln's letter to Bennett is published in Basler 1:93-94.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, PRESIDENT . AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN," WITH THICK FLOURISH UNDERNEATH) TO JOHN BENNETT OF PETERSBURG; SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 5 AUGUST 1837. 1 PAGE, 4TO, 248 X 201 MM. (9 13/16 X 7 15/16 IN.), WITH INTEGRAL ADDRESS LEAF ADDRESSED IN LINCOLN'S HAND: "JOHN BENNETT ESQ. PETERSBURG ILLS. P[E]R MR. BOICE," NEATLY SILKED, PAPER EVENLY YELLOWED, OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION. LINCOLN IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE An early letter in which Lincoln reports, to the best of his limited knowledge, on the passage of certain bills he introduced in the state legislature regarding the new town of Petersburg and a new road proposed to be built to it. He writes: "Mr. [Thomas? or Ninian W.?] Edwards tells me that you wish to know, whether the act to which your town incorporation provision was attached, passed into a law. It did. You can organize under the general incorporation law as soon as you choose. "I also tacked a provision on to a fellow's bill to authorize the relocation of the road from Salem down to your town; but I am not certain whether or not the bill passed; neither do I suppose I can ascertain before the laws will be published. If it is a law, Bowling Green, Bennett Abell and yourself are appointed to make the change. "No news. No excitement except a little about the election of Monday next. I suppose, of course, our friend Dr. [Anson G.] Henry stands no chance in your 'diggings.' Your friend and humble servant...." John Bennett the recipent, was the proprietor of a hotel in the recently established town of Petersburg, not far from New Salem, one of six frontier townsites which Lincoln had surveyed during his brief career as surveyor. Petersburg proved an auspicious location and grew at the expense of New Salem, which was almost deserted not long afterwards. On 13 July, Lincoln had introduced a bill to establish a state road from Beardstown to Petersburg, naming Henry McHenry, Solomon Penny and Myram Penny as commissioners "to view, mark and locate a road from Beardstown...to Petersburg" (full text in Collected Works , ed. R.P. Basler, 1:82-83). That bill was approved and six days later in the same session a bill proposing to relocate part of another state road was introduced, to which Lincoln, as he reports to Bennett in this letter, "tacked on" a provision which stipulated that "the inhabitants of the towm of Petersburg, in Sangamon county," might "be incorporated according to the provision of the general town incorporation act" even though "said town may not contain one hundred and fifty inhabitants" as prescribed by the earlier law" (Basler 1:85-86). In the original manuscript text of the bill (at the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield), this appended article is in Lincoln's hand "on the verso of the sheet containing sections 1 and 4." Lincoln's letter to Bennett is published in Basler 1:93-94.
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