{"id":6253,"date":"2020-10-23T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/letter-to-william-s-speer\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:36:26","slug":"letter-to-william-s-speer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/letter-to-william-s-speer\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to William S. Speer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(<em>Confidential.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, October 23, 1860.<\/p>\n<p><em>My dear Sir<\/em>: Yours of the 13th was duly received. I appreciate your motive when you suggest the propriety of my writing for the public something disclaiming all intention to interfere with slaves or slavery in the States; but in my judgment it would do no good. I have already done this many, many times; and it is in print, and open to all who will read. Those who will not read or heed what I have already publicly said would not read or heed a repetition of it. &#8220;If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A. LINCOLN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Confidential.) SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, October 23, 1860. My dear Sir: Yours of the 13th was duly received. I appreciate your motive when you suggest the propriety of my writing for the public something disclaiming all intention to interfere with slaves or slavery in the States; but in my judgment it would do no good. 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-6253","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\/6253","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=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/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=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}