That pile is worth keeping together.

It will elect a State ticket two years hence." [Sidenote] Lincoln to Judd, Nov.

15, 1858.
"In that day I shall fight in the ranks, but shall be in no one's way for any of the places.

I am especially for Trumbull's reelection; and, by the way, this brings me to the principal object of this letter.

Can you not take your draft of an apportionment bill and carefully revise it till it shall be strictly and obviously just in all particulars, and then by an early and persistent effort get enough of the enemies' men to enable you to pass it?
I believe if you and Peck make a job of it, begin early and work earnestly and quietly, you can succeed in it.
Unless something be done, Trumbull is inevitably beaten two years hence.