Lincoln's own thoughts respecting the Danites are set forth incidentally in the following letter: SPRINGFIELD, June 23, 1858. HON. LYMAN TRUMBULL, MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 16th reached me only yesterday. We had already seen by telegraph a report of Douglas's onslaught upon everybody but himself. I have this morning seen the Washington _Union_, in which I think the Judge is rather worsted in regard to the onslaught. In relation to the charge of an alliance between the Republicans and the Buchanan men in the state, if being rather pleased to see a division in the ranks of Democracy, and not doing anything to prevent it, be such an alliance, then there is such an alliance. At least, that is true of me. But if it be intended to charge that there is any alliance by which there is to be any concession of principle on either side, or furnishing of sinews, or partition of offices, or swapping of votes to any extent, or the doing of anything, great or small, on the one side for a consideration expressed or implied on the other, no such thing is true so far as I know or believe. Before this reaches you, you will have seen the proceedings of our Republican State Convention. It was really a grand affair and was in all respects all that our friends could desire. The resolution in effect nominating me for Senator was passed more for the object of closing down upon the everlasting croaking about Wentworth than anything else. The signs look reasonably well. Our state ticket, I think, will be elected without much difficulty. But with the advantages they have of us, we shall be hard run to carry the legislature. We shall greet your return home with great pleasure. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. The only counties in the state in which the Danites showed any vitality were Union County in the south and Bureau County in the north. They polled only 5079 votes in the whole state. The influence of the Eastern Republicans, who were inclined to support Douglas at the beginning of the campaign, and especially that of the New York _Tribune_, is noted by Judd and Herndon. N. B. Judd, Chicago, July 16: We have lost some Republicans in this region.... You may attribute it to the course of the New York _Tribune_, which has tended to loosen party ties and induce old Whigs to look upon D.'s return to the Senate as rather desirable. You ought to come to Illinois as soon as you can by way of New York and straighten out the newspapers there. Even the _Evening Post_ compares Douglas to Silas Wright. Bah! W. H. Herndon, Springfield, July 22: