Lincoln votes aye on bill to purchase papers of James Madison. It passes 82-59.Journal.

In evening he receives copy of Belleville (Illinois) Advocate, containing what he considers "laboured justification of the administration on the origin of the Mexican war," by Rev. J. M. Peck. He assumes that Peck sent it.Abraham Lincoln to John M. Peck, 21 May 1848, CW, 1:472-73.