An original copy? So scan it and post it. Otherwise, how do we know?
That story was published in a lot of different papers, some of them quite far away from Baltimore. It would be helpful whether it actually appeared in any Baltimore paper before it was reprinted all those times.
And why, oh why didn't the Baltimore Sun or Baltimore Exchange (a paper sympathetic with the secessionists) ask Fuller or other members of the delegation whether the "informant's" version was accurate?
I was unclear in what I said. I have a copy of that article made for me by the University of Texas. I suspect it was made from a microfilm of the paper’s editions. They had moved their Baltimore Sun papers or microfilm to where only students and faculty could access it, but they kindly made a copy of this one article at my request.
The University in the past has asked me to sign a statement that I would not publish a copy made from an actual paper they owned, and I have followed that guidance even with microfilm. The words in the old articles are no longer under copyright, but photos of papers they own or microfilm might be.
I’d be happy to take a picture of the heading over the article the University gave me which lists the paper they copied and even which page it was on if that would satisfy you.
The link I provided in my last post lists Lincoln’s words which agree with what I just posted above in case you question my accuracy. It makes no sense for me to misquote something and lose credibility.