The
assignment which the General is now exhibiting purports to have been by
Anderson in writing. The one I copied was signed with a cross.
I am told that Gen. Neale says that he will swear that he heard Gen.
Adams tell young Anderson that the assignment made by his father was
signed with a cross.
The above are 'facts,' as stated. I leave them without comment. I have
given the names of persons who have knowledge of these facts, in order
that any one who chooses may call on them and ascertain how far they will
corroborate my statements. I have only made these statements because I
am known by many to be one of the individuals against whom the charge of
forging the assignment and slipping it into the General's papers has been
made, and because our silence might be construed into a confession of its
truth. I shall not subscribe my name; but I hereby authorize the editor
of the Journal to give it up to any one that may call for it.
LINCOLN AND TALBOTT IN REPLY TO GEN. ADAMS.
"SANGAMON JOURNAL," SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Oct. 28, 1837.
In the Republican of this morning a publication of Gen.
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