I have reliable information of this. Now, if you agree with me that this
appointment would dissatisfy rather than gratify the Whigs of this State,
that it would slacken their energies in future contests, that his
appointment in '41 is an old sore with them which they will not patiently
have reopened,--in a word that his appointment now would be a fatal
blunder to the administration and our political men here in Illinois,
write Crittenden to that effect. He can control the matter. Were you to
write Ewing I fear the President would never hear of your letter. This
may be mere suspicion. You might write directly to Old Zach. You will be
the best judge of the propriety of that. Not a moment's time is to be
lost.

Let this be confidential except with Mr. Edwards and a few others whom
you know I would trust just as I do you.

Yours as ever,

A. LINCOLN.




REQUEST FOR GENERAL LAND-OFFICE APPPOINTMENT

TO E. EMBREE.

[Confidential]

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, May 25, 1849.
HON. E. EMBREE