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“In 1832, in Lincoln’s first attempt to win public office, the good Reverend Cartwright had defeated him for a seat in the Illinois state legislature. They met a second time in the congressional election of 1846, an especially nasty campaign. Running as a Whig, Lincoln objected strongly to Cartwright’s insistence on bringing his religion into the public square. The Democrat Cartwright responded by tarring Lincoln as “an infidel,�� a man unfit to represent good Christians. Lincoln had won that election, and neither of the men had seen fit to apologize.”
― Dan Abrams, Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency