john todd stewart, who you remember as lincoln's first law partner, tried to remove lincoln endorsement. he rushed into the law office and confronted him he asked if lincoln had signed the abolition call. he said i answered in the negative adding that i had signed his name myself to the question did lincoln authorize i returned and that it no. then exclaimed the startled and indignant stewards, you have ruined him. i thought i understood lincoln thoroughly herndon road but nor did i vindicate myself if a sale, i mainly sat down after stewart had left the office and wrote lincoln who was then in tazewell county attending court. a brief account of what i had done and how much stir it was creating in the ranks of his conservative friends. if he approves or disapproves my course, i asked him to write or telegraph me at once. in a brief time, came his answer. this is what lincoln wrote in a telegram to herndon. all right, go ahead. will meet you radicals in all. at that meeting, on february 202nd 1856, which happened to be george washington's birthday, george snyder the editor of the meeting