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Keller Family Donation Honors Association FFoorr tthhee PPeeooppllee A Newslette r o f the Abraham L incoln Asso ciation Vo lume 5, Numb er 2 Summer 2 00 3 Spr i ng fi el d , I l li n o i s Keller Family Donation Honors Association By Thomas F. Schwartz the Old State Capitol as a major Lincoln historic site. Both were the wo recent donations to the property of Oliver Dickey, Keller’s Abraham Lincoln Presidential great-grandfather. Copies of the origi- TLibrary and Museum were on nals will be placed in the Old State display February 12 at the Abraham Capitol. Lincoln Symposium to honor the Lincoln wrote to Secretary of the memory of Oliver J. Keller Sr. and his Interior John P. Usher, urging him to: leadership as president of the Abraham “Please see Mr. Dickey a friend, and Lincoln Association in raising money son of a friend, of mine. He is a gen- to restore the Old State Capitol. tleman of very high standing; and I Governor Otto Kerner asked former will be glad if you hear him patiently, members of the Association to reacti- and oblige him if possible.” “Mr. vate the organization and assist the Dickey” was Oliver Dickey, son of State of Illinois in saving the Old State John Dickey who was Lincoln’s room- Capitol for future generations. Under mate from 1847 to 1849 when both Keller’s leadership, the Association men served in Congress. Oliver Dickey raised nearly $300,000 to purchase served as the law partner of Thaddeus period furnishings for the rooms in the Stevens, the influential congressman Old State Capitol. Mr. and Mrs. O. J. from Pennsylvania. As a delegate to Keller Jr. donated an original Lincoln the 1860 Republican National Con- letter dated April 13, 1863, and a vention, Dickey also served in the del- Recent donations by the Keller Family signed 1858 Lincoln photograph in egation that traveled to Springfield to were on display at the memory of O. J. Keller Sr. and the officially deliver the news to Lincoln Old State Capitol during this year’s efforts of the Association in preserving that he had been nominated. Abraham Lincoln Symposium. The Lincoln Statue at Richmond Another View s the line between news and haps even most of those in attendance. Unionists, was less than receptive to a entertainment continues to The following essay is by a native visit by President Lincoln. The war, Ablur in our postmodern cul- Virginian, Dr. Phillip C. Stone. For then in its closing stages, had sapped ture it is not surprising that a handful over two decades, Stone has taught at the energy, life, and wealth of of protesters at the unveiling of a stat- Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Richmond and the Confederacy. The ue of Abraham Lincoln and Tad in the Virginia, and currently serves as presi- burning of much of the city just days former Confederate capital of Rich- dent. While his reasoned assessment is before Lincoln’s appearance there was mond, Virginia, received national not the stuff for television cameras, it not only the most recent, but also the attention. Vitriolic statements com- is well worth reading. most devastating source of suffering paring Lincoln to a conquering leader Welcome to Richmond, for Richmonders. of a foreign power feeds the stereotype Mr. Lincoln! Lincoln, however, was fully enti- that the Civil War continues in the Under the conditions obtaining in tled to be in Richmond. He was enti- hearts and minds of Southerners. Like April 1865, it is certainly understand- tled to enter the city because he was all stereotypes, however, the protesters able why the city of Richmond, except President of the United States. The hardly reflected the views of many, per- for African Americans and a handful of continued on page 6 2 For the People President’s Column By Robert S. Eckley appeared on the platform at many of unrequited devotion manifested by political meetings with Lincoln from the two. Davis had been offended n his book, Life on the Circuit with 1852 through 1862, and when he much earlier in 1848 when he wished Lincoln, Henry Clay Whitney failed to obtain the 1856 Republican to run for judge of the Eighth Circuit Iwrote: “When I first knew the nomination for Congress in the dis- and Lincoln made no effort on his eighth circuit, the great triumvirate trict, Lincoln wrote to Davis and behalf, because Benjamin Edwards, consisted of Davis, Lincoln, and Whitney, “It turned me blind.” Davis brother of Ninian Edwards, husband Swett: and their social consequence and Swett played active roles in both of Mary Todd Lincoln’s sister, also was in the order named.” And so they of Lincoln’s United States Senate cam- coveted the position. Ultimately, were from the fall of 1849 until paigns and Swett ran for and was elect- Edwards decided not to seek the Abraham Lincoln stopped making the ed to the state legislature in 1858 in judgeship and the issue disappeared. twice-a-year tour a decade later. They order to support Lincoln’s candidacy. Lincoln’s later delay in finding an were the stalwarts most consistently In 1860 the Eighth Circuit bar appropriate appointment for Davis making the tour, although there were proved to be one of the best political after the 1860 election was a more vis- others who joined periodically or for machines in the nation. Aside from the ible slight when a year and a half tran- portions of the circuit, and each coun- candidate Lincoln, Davis was its driver spired before he was named to the ty usually had several local attorneys. and Swett was his principal lieutenant. United States Supreme Court. In the There were fourteen counties in the The second-choice strategy adopted by meantime Orville Browning, named to circuit in 1849, eight from 1853 Davis at the Republican National replace Senator Stephen Douglas after through 1856, and only five in the last Convention paid off on the third bal- his death, was actively seeking the three years of their joint enterprise as lot. Immediately following adjourn- same office while Swett and other the population and caseload grew. ment of the convention, Davis and Eighth Circuit friends worked for David Davis had met Lincoln in Swett went to the hotel of Thurlow Davis, assisted by prominent members Vandalia in 1835 as Jesse Fell, John Weed, William Seward’s manager, and of the St. Louis bar at Swett’s urging, Todd Stuart, and Lincoln stood visit- invited him to meet Lincoln in and by Mary Todd Lincoln. ing before the state capitol. During the Springfield, which he did along with Swett’s own situation was another next decade and one half, they occa- Swett. A following meeting occurred matter. He did not help his own cause sionally met at the bar and even more between Lincoln, Weed, Davis, and by not knowing what he wanted or frequently in the political hustings as Swett after the election in December. how to phrase his appeal, written in fellow Whigs. They became much bet- In the campaign, Davis was constantly response to Lincoln’s request on the ter acquainted once Lincoln rejoined involved and traveled to the East to day of the inauguration. Nevertheless, the tour after his term in the Thirtieth reassure disparate party leaders, during the first two years of his admin- Congress. This was on the second tour including Pennsylvania Senator Simon istration, Lincoln offered him posi- of the circuit for the newly elected Cameron, Horace Greeley, Maryland tions on three occasions, none particu- Judge Davis, where he introduced Congressman Henry Winter Davis, larly attractive, which he declined. Leonard Swett to Lincoln in a Logan New York Governor Edwin D. Swett had sought the Republican County tavern. Swett had just been Morgan, and others, of Lincoln’s gubernatorial nomination in the same admitted to the bar after stopping and respect for them. Davis and Swett state convention in Decatur of 1860 staying in Bloomington on his way played important roles in the cabinet that nominated Lincoln, when Lincoln home to Maine from the Mexican War. choices, especially for the War and had avoided expressing any preference. The trio enjoyed a lifelong friend- Interior departments, and Lincoln dis- His reasons were that each of the three ship in the practice of law and politics. patched Swett on December 25 to candidates was his friend, but According to the information assem- Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washing- significantly he wished to avoid stir- bled in The Law Practice of Abraham ton, D.C., for three weeks of consulta- ring an acrimonious Chicago argu- Lincoln, Swett was a party of record in tions regarding the cabinet and the ment, which might have deprived him ninety cases in which Lincoln was deteriorating political situation. Before of his unanimous selection. A wise involved—usually with or opposed to leaving Washington, Swett became political decision. In 1862 Swett was Lincoln, and there were probably seriously ill and spent almost eight nominated for Congress in a newly many more where the association was weeks in all, at his own expense, before arranged district and lost to Demo- informal. In more than a few he was able to return to Bloomington cratic candidate Stuart, Lincoln’s first instances, Lincoln was the acting judge in late February. law partner and former congressman of choice in filling in for Davis when Like many campaign supporters from a part of the new district, as a he could not be on the bench. Swett before and after, there was an element continued on page 6 For the People 3 THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION ROBERT S.
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