About this time, assembling his thoughts for campaign season, Lincoln composes several pages of "fragments" on government and slavery. Fragment on Government, [1 July 1854?], CW, 2:220-21; Fragment on Government, [1 July 1854?], CW, 2:221-22; Fragment on Slavery, [1 July 1854?], CW, 2:222; Fragment on Slavery, [1 July 1854?], CW, 2:222-23.