{"id":115510,"date":"2021-09-25T20:13:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=115510"},"modified":"2021-09-25T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:26:50","slug":"lincoln-to-seward-on-tahiti-consulship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/lincoln-to-seward-on-tahiti-consulship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln to Seward on Tahiti Consulship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">To William H. Seward<sup>1<\/sup><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">September 25, 1861<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Tahiti is vacant; and if the Secretary of State knows no objection, I know none, to Mr. Clark&#8217;s having the appointment.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A. LINCOLN<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Sep. 25. 1861<\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li>Lincoln&#8217;s endorsement appears on a letter from A.H. Clark, Washington, September 25, 1861:&#8220; In March last I was recommended for the Consulship of Acapulco.&#8220;Of the number of those who recommended me are gentlemen now holding important federal positions in California and elsewhere. I am fully endorsed in the State Department by Senators Harlan, McDougall and Latham.&#8220;My application for Acapulco was unsuccessful, and I respectfully ask the Consulship for Tahiti, made vacant by the death of Mr [Visesimus] Turner who was appointed from California.&#8221;No record of Clark&#8217;s appointment has been found.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To William H. Seward1 September 25, 1861 Tahiti is vacant; and if the Secretary of State knows no objection, I know none, to Mr. Clark&#8217;s having the appointment. A. LINCOLN Sep. 25. 1861 Lincoln&#8217;s endorsement appears on a letter from A.H. Clark, Washington, September 25, 1861:&#8220; In March last I was recommended for the Consulship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncollected-letters-of-abraham-lincoln"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}