{"id":87864,"date":"2020-02-09T02:33:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T07:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=87864"},"modified":"2020-02-09T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T21:20:42","slug":"from-a-j-grover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/from-a-j-grover\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:right\">Earlville LaSale Co Ills<br \/>\nJan. 9th 1859 [1860].<\/div>\n<p>Hon Abram Lincoln<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dr Sir \u2013 It has been publicly stated in this place that you endorse the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, as constitutional in its object, &#038; in its provisions in All Respects&#8211; You would would confer a favour upon the writer of this as well as upon many Republicans hereabouts by briefly giving your views upon the matter.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yours Very Truly<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right\">A. J. Grover<br \/>\nMem. of Rep. County<br \/>\nCom. of La Salle Co.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>This letter is probably misdated, for Lincoln responded to \u201cYours of the 9th\u201d on January 15, 1860, in a letter to Grover.<\/li>\n<li>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/30727\">House Divided<\/a> at Dickinson College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlville LaSale Co Ills Jan. 9th 1859 [1860]. Hon Abram Lincoln &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dr Sir \u2013 It has been publicly stated in this place that you endorse the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, as constitutional in its object, &#038; in its provisions in All Respects&#8211; You would would confer a favour upon the writer of this as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":87579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"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\/87864","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=87864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87864\/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=87864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}