Lincoln arrives for fall term of Champaign Circuit Court. Whitney describes him riding into town "behind his own horse, which was an indifferent, raw-boned specimen, in his own blacksmith-made buggy—a most ordinary looking one." Henry C. Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1892), 30.

In evening Lincoln makes anti-Nebraska speech at court house. Henry C. Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1892), 215; Urbana Union, 26 October 1854.