DEAR SIR:--You, no doubt, remember the enclosed memorandum being handed
me in your office. I have just made the desired search, and find that no
such deed has ever been here. Campbell, the auditor, says that if it were
here, it would be in his office, and that he has hunted for it a dozen
times, and could never find it. He says that one time and another, he has
heard much about the matter, that it was not a deed for Right of Way, but
a deed, outright, for Depot-ground--at least, a sale for Depot-ground,
and there may never have been a deed. He says, if there is a deed, it is
most probable General Alexander, of Paris, has it.

Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN.




NEBRASKA MEASURE

TO J. M. PALMER

[Confidential]

SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 7, 1854.
HON. J. M. PALMER.

DEAR SIR:--You know how anxious I am that this Nebraska measure shall be
rebuked and condemned everywhere. Of course I hope something from your
position; yet I do not expect you to do anything which may be wrong in
your own judgment; nor would I have you do anything personally injurious
to yourself. You are, and always have been, honestly and sincerely a