<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-01'>Friday, July 1, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln advertises 48 letters still on hand in New Salem post office.
            Addressees are told in "Sangamo Journal" that if not called for by October 1, 1836,
            letters will be sent to general post office as dead letters.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 9 July 1836.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-02'>Saturday,
  July 2, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Sangamo Journal" announces that "Republican," Springfield's
  Democratic paper, compliments Lincoln for course he took in legislature on bill
  "permitting the State Bank to take the million dollars worth of reserve stock
  and obligating the bank to pay the Wiggins loan" of $100,000 made in 1831.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 2 July 1836.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-04'>Monday, July 4, 1836.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and other candidates for legislature probably attend celebration of
            Fourth of July. Moses K. Anderson, candidate for Senate, and R. M. Quinton, candidate
            for House, are only two speakers mentioned in <title>Sangamo
            Journal</title>, July 9, 1836.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-11'>Monday, July 11, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is debator at political meeting in court house. Ninian W. Edwards,
            Whig, is followed by Dr. Jacob M. Early, Democrat, and he in turn by Dan Stone, Whig.
            John Calhoun replies to Stone. Lincoln follows Calhoun and is replied to by Richard
            Quinton. All are legislative candidates.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 July 1836; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A78' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at a Political Rally in
                  the Court House at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 11 July 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:49-50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-14'>Thursday, July 14, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8833, -89.7833' teiForm='name'>Salisbury, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and other candidates attend rally and address "collection of
            citizens" at Salisbury, village on New Salem-Springfield road.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-16'>Saturday, July 16, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9500, -89.7167' teiForm='name'>Athens, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln probably keeps first of ten speaking engagements for legislative
            candidates announced in today's Sangamo Journal. [Robert L. Wilson wrote February 10,
            1866: "We travelled on horse back from one grove to another. . . . The speaking would
            begin in the forenoon, the candidates speaking alternately until all who could speak had
            his turn."<bibl default='NO'>William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E.
               Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-18'>Monday,
  July 18, 1836.</date> Varsell's Farm on Sugar Creek, <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon County, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
  Seventeen candidates meet at Varsell farm in southern Sangamon County.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln takes
  leading part in campaign, "espousing the Whig side of all questions . . . [and]
  manifesting skill and tact."<bibl default='NO'>R. L. Wilson to
  W. H. Herndon, 10 February 1866, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington
  Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-19'>Tuesday, July 19, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.3833' teiForm='name'>Mechanicsburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Candidates hold meeting. Lincoln steps in to see that there is fair play
            when gang of roughs pick fight with John Bell.<bibl default='NO'>Hertz,
                  <title corresp='books_Hertz2'>Hidden Lincoln</title>, 382; <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-20'>Wednesday, July 20, 1836.</date> Cotton Hill, 
  <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon County, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
  Legislative aspirants are scheduled to speak at meeting six miles south of
  Springfield.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-21'>Thursday, July 21, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Another legislative rally is held, with all candidates invited to
               speak.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-25'>Monday, July 25, 1836.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Allenton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Today's meeting is scheduled at Allenton, a mile and a half north of modern
               Taylorville.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-26'>Tuesday,
  July 26, 1836.</date> Campbell Farm, <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon County,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stump speeches are scheduled at Thomas
  Campbell's farm, eight miles west of Springfield.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 23 July 1836.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-27'>Wednesday, July 27, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Caravan moves
  north, and new town of Petersburg entertains its first political candidates.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 23 July 1836.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-29'>Friday,
  July 29, 1836.</date> Spear's Farm, <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon County,
  IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Candidates halt at farm of Isaac Spear, six miles southeast of
  Springfield, address voters, and move on to Springfield. Lincoln, passing new
  home of George Forquer, sees his first lightning rod.
  <bibl default='NO'>Osborn A. Oldroyd, ed.,
  <title>The Lincoln Memorial: Album Immortelles</title>
  (Springfield, IL: Lincoln Publishing, 1890), 143-45.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-07-30'>Saturday, July 30, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Winding up campaign, candidates speak at court house. Ninian W. Edwards,
            Whig, bellows denial of charge of Dr. Early, Democrat. Early challenges Edwards to duel.
            Lincoln speaks next and astonishes audience by ability with which he handles subject in
               dispute.<bibl default='NO'>R. L. Wilson to W. H. Herndon, 10 February
               1866, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>