[Suit is filed in Sangamon Circuit Court by Alexander and Martin S. Trent against David Rutledge, William Green, Jr., and Lincoln on bond for $150 executed by defendants January 31, 1833, to secure conveyance of "the east half of Lot number five South of Main Street in the first survey in the town of New Salem."William H. Townsend, Lincoln the Litigant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 55-56.]

Lincoln files survey in William Butler v. William Tilford et al., according to court order of October 19, 1838.Record.

Exact day of Lincoln's speech in Mount Vernon has not been determined, but it is assumed that today and tomorrow are spent in making 80-mile trip from Waterloo to Mount Vernon.

Mrs. Lincoln buys corset goods: 6 yards "Gimp," 38¢, and 1 yard corset lace, 12¢.Irwin Ledger.

"The Whig Convention of Montgomery county [Md.] met at Rockville on Saturday last. . . . On the night of the same day the Rough and Ready Club held a meeting in the Courthouse, and was addressed in a most interesting speech by the Hon. Mr. Lincoln, of Illinois."National Intelligencer, 29 August 1848.

"Sangamon County Circuit Court commences its August term today. Judge Davis has arrived." Illinois Journal.

Lincoln & Herndon have two cases, but both are continued. Record.

Whig county convention nominates Preston Breckinridge for legislature in place of Jesse Pickerel, who has declined. Illinois Journal, 27 August 1850.

Lincoln writes and has sworn affidavits of G. W. Willson and J. W. Simpson in Graves v. Penny. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Eight of Lincoln & Herndon's cases come up in court. They dismiss one and two are dismissed by their opponents. Graves v. Penny & Campbell is settled by agreement, judgment in amount of $93 and costs being entered for their client. In Keedy v. Barney they default and plaintiff recovers $40 debt and $54.80 damages. Remaining cases are continued. Record.

Lincoln writes judgment in Graves v. Penny, affidavit of defendant in Samuel McClurkan & Co. v. Teasdale, plus notice of deposition and list of questions and acknowledgment of notice of service in latter case. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln concludes his review of Douglas' speech before Scott Club. Club requests him to prepare copy for publication. Illinois Journal, 30 August 1852.

"Douglas was 'killed' again, of course," observes Register (August 29, 1852). "As he was not 'killed very dead,' however the sanguinary work will be renewed next Saturday night week, instead of next Thursday." Speech to the Springfield Scott Club, 26 August 1852, CW, 2:135-57.

Lincoln addresses a Whig Party convention. A newspaper reports, "His subject was the one which is uppermost in the minds of the people—the Nebraska-Kansas bill; and the ingenious, logical, and at the same time fair and candid manner, in which he exhibited the great wrong and injustice of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the extension of slavery into free territory, deserves and has received the warmest commendation of every friend of freedom . . . His . . . masterly effort . . . was replete with unanswerable arguments, which must and will effectually tell at the coming election." Illinois Daily Journal, 2 September 1854, 2:2; Speech at Winchester, Illinois, 26 August 1854, CW, 2:226-27.

This is Lincoln's first speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Lincoln spends night at Matteson House, and leaves for Kalamazoo early next morning. Abraham Lincoln to Hezekiah G. Wells, 21 August 1856, CW, 2:360.

Lincoln checks out of Randolph Hotel at Macomb in morning. Randolph Hotel Room Book.

Before leaving town, T. P. Pearson, photographer, makes ambrotype of him. ISLA—Statement of Jacob Thompson.

In afternoon he goes to Amboy where he makes short speech and stays night. ISLA—Letter of Charles E. Ives, 7 February 1927.

Lincoln attends church, where J. Henry Brown sees him. "I hardly know how to express the strength of my personal regard for Mr. Lincoln," writes Brown. "I never saw a man for whom I so soon formed an attachment. I like him much, and agree with him in all things but his politics. He is kind and very sociable; immensely popular among the people of Springfield. . . . There are so many hard lines in his face that it becomes a mask of the inner man. His true character only shines out when in an animated conversation, or when telling an amusing tale, of which he is very fond. He is said to be a homely man; I do not think so." InFtwL—Brown Journal, Photocopy.

Lincoln and Sec. Seward, accompanied by Gen. McClellan's staff and escort of dragoons, review Gen. McDowell's army. Russell, Diary.

President countermands order of Gen. Fremont: "Intelligent gentlemen at Louisville say the presence of [Col. Lovell H.] Rousseau's regiment is needed there. Pardon us for countermanding your order to him to join your department." Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont, 26 August 1861, CW, 4:499.

At cabinet meeting "general feeling over public affairs was decidedly more hopeful than for some time past." Boston Advertiser, 28 August 1862.

Lincoln makes several trips to telegraph office during day, and after supper goes prepared to stay all night for latest news from Gen. Pope at front and Gen. McClellan at Alexandria, Va. Bates, Telegraph Office, 118.

Personally pays $124.25 of White House bills for books amounting to $250. Pratt, Personal Finances, 181; Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin B. French, 26 August 1862, CW, 5:394.

President Lincoln writes to James C. Conkling, of Springfield, Illinois, and declines an invitation to speak on September 3 at a "mass-meeting of unconditional Union-men." Lincoln acknowledges that he has detractors who "blame" him for prolonging the war. Lincoln responds, "To such I would say: you desire peace . . . But how can we attain it? . . . If you are not for force, nor yet for dissolution, there only remains some imaginable compromise. I do not believe any compromise, embracing the maintenance of the Union, is now possible. All I learn, leads to a directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion, is its military—its army." Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling, 26 August 1863, CW, 6:406-10.

Cabinet meets. Welles, Diary.