| Thursday, August 1, 1850.Springfield, IL.
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Whig county convention meets to select delegates to district
convention at Pekin. Sangamon delegation is instructed for Richard
Yates for congressman. Candidates for legislature, sheriff, and
coroner are also chosen and resolutions approving compromise report
of Congressional Committee of Thirteen are adopted. Lincoln probably
attends.
Illinois Journal, 2 August 1850.
He writes to Edwin W. Bakewell of Bloomington, enclosing bill for
legal services.
Abraham Lincoln to Edwin W. Bakewell, 1 August 1850, CW, 2:91. |