{"id":6221,"date":"2020-07-18T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/letter-to-hannibal-hamlin-nominee-for-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:46:31","slug":"letter-to-hannibal-hamlin-nominee-for-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/letter-to-hannibal-hamlin-nominee-for-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Hannibal Hamlin-Nominee for Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, July 18, 186o.<\/p>\n<p><em>My dear Sir:<\/em> It appears to me that you and I ought to be acquainted, and accordingly I write this as a sort of introduction of myself to you. You first entered the Senate during the single term I was a member of the House of Representatives, but I have no recollection that we were introduced. I shall be pleased to receive a line from you.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of Republican success now appears very flattering, so far as I can perceive. Do you see anything to the contrary?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 270px;\">Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A. Lincoln<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, July 18, 186o. My dear Sir: It appears to me that you and I ought to be acquainted, and accordingly I write this as a sort of introduction of myself to you. You first entered the Senate during the single term I was a member of the House of Representatives, but I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":87579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abraham-lincoln-from-any-source"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lincoln-transparent-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","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=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}