y unwelcome at the time, but which was accepted with habitual
fortitude. What this matter was is revealed in the following letter:

SPRINGFIELD, NOV. 16, 1858.

HON. N.B. JUDD--_My Dear Sir_:--Yours of the 15th is just received.
I wrote you the same day. As to the pecuniary matter, I am willing
to pay according to my ability, but I am the poorest hand living to
get others to pay. I have been on expense so long, without earning
anything, that I am absolutely without money now for even household
expenses. Still, if you can put in two hundred and fifty dollars
for me towards discharging the debt of the committee, I will allow
it when you and I settle the private matter between us. This, with
what I have already paid with an outstanding note of mine, will
exceed my subscription of five hundred dollars. This, too, is
exclusive of my ordinary expenses during the campaign, all of
which, being added to my loss of time and business, bears pretty
heavily upon one no better off than I am. But as I had the post of
honor, it is not for me to be over-nice.

You are feeling badly. _And this, too, shall pass away;_ never
fear.

Yours as ever,
A. LINCOLN.

Hon. E.M. Haines, who was a member of the Legislature of 1858-9, and a
supporter of Lincoln for the Senate, states that Lincoln seemed greatly
depressed by his defeat, and that his friends were also somewhat
disheartened regarding his future prospects, and neglected him to some
extent. "Some time after the Senatorial election," says Mr. Haines,
"Governor Bissell gave a reception at his house, which I attended with
my wife. After we had paid our respects to the Governor and Mrs.
Bissell, we passed on to an adjoining room, where there was quite a
throng of people engaged in conversation. Mr. Lincoln was standing near
the centre of the room, entirely alone, with his usual sad countenance,
and apparently unnoticed by anyone. I said to my wife, 'Here is Mr.
Lincoln; he looks as if he had lost all his friends; come and have an
introduction to him, and cheer him up.' Mr. Lincoln received us very
cordially, and we entered into a general conversation, apparently
unnoticed, and attracting no attention from others as they passed and
repassed around us. Dancing was going on in the adjacent rooms, and Mr.
Lincoln invited my wife to join him in the dancing, which she did, and
he apparently took much