With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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A former Whig, George Ashmun served with Lincoln in the 30th United States Congress. As president of the Republican National Convention of 1860, it was Ashmun’s responsibility to inform Lincoln that he was the party’s choice as candidate for president. The extreme formality of Lincoln’s letter of acceptance indicates that the news had a sobering effect on him.

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I accept the nomination tendered me by the Convention over which you presided, and of which I am formally apprized, in the letter of yourself and others acting as a committee of the convention, for that purpose--


<p>A former Whig, George Ashmun served with Lincoln in the 30<sup>th</sup> United States Congress. As president of the Republican National Convention of 1860, it was Ashmun’s responsibility to inform Lincoln that he was the party’s choice as candidate for president. The extreme formality of Lincoln’s letter of acceptance indicates that the news had a sobering effect on him. </p>