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The President elect denies the recent Canard

Opportunely for the Virginia Elections, there came out recently among other things, a telegraph stating that the President elect had written to Republican Congressmen, recommending conciliatory measures. This hopeful announcement is thus settled by the Lincoln organ at Springfield (too late to reach the country in this State before Monday):

Springfield. Ill., Jan. 29. --This morning's Journal contains an authoritative contradiction of a Washington dispatch to the press, stating that Mr. Lincoln had written to his Congressional friends recommending conciliatory measures. It says the country may rest assured that in Abraham Lincoln they have a Republican President--one who will give them a Republican administration. Mr. Lincoln is not committed to the Border State Compromise, nor to any other. He stands immovably on the Chicago platform, and he will neither acquiesce in, nor counsel his friends to acquiesce in, any compromise that surrenders one lots of it.

The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 1, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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