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<date value='1838-01-05'>Friday,
January 5, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>Lincoln writes a notice to take
depositions for defendant Thomas Cassidy in the case of
<name type='case' key='L03471'>Foster v. Cassidy</name>. Lincoln also writes
the acknowledgment of the notice, and Samuel H. Treat, the attorney for
plaintiff Joseph C. Foster, signs it. <bibl default='NO'>Notice to Take Depositions, 5
January 1838, <ital>Foster v. Cassidy</ital>, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library
of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-01-06'>Saturday, January 6, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Sangamo Journal announces that Cyrus Walker is not candidate for Congress,
but is advocating John T. Stuart. Stuart is absent but "Journal" has no doubt he will be
candidate.]</p>
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<date value='1838-01-12'>Friday, January 12, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes and signs, for Stuart & Lincoln, a declaration and
praecipe in <name type='case' key='L04427'>Reed et ux. v. Arnold and
Butler</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<p> Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a
declaration in <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannan v. Kenney</name>,
signing "Stuart & Lincoln for plff."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-01-13'>Saturday, January 13, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes and signs an affidavit before William Butler swearing that
he believes Mary Ann Mitchell, Laura Rowena Mitchell, and Edward Mitchell, minor
defendants in <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v. Mitchell et
al.</name>, are not residents of Illinois.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-01-17'>Wednesday, January 17, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> ["Being unexpectedly called from home . . . likely to detain me until a
week previous to our next court, I take this method of informing those who have confided
their business to . . . Walker & Hewett that whenever not adversely employed,
either Messrs. Logan & Baker or Messrs. Stuart & Lincoln will give
advice or assistance needed during my absence. J. Hewett."<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 20 January 1838.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-01-25'>Thursday, January 25, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Special term of Sangamon Circuit Court is held to try Isaac Silcon on
charge of larceny. Grand jury fails to indict him.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1838-01-27'>Saturday,
January 27, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes and signs a declaration
and praecipe in <name type='case' key='L03456'>Harrison v.
Dickinson and Taylor</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<p>In
the evening, State Representative Lincoln addresses the Young Men's Lyceum of
Springfield, Illinois, on the topic of "the perpetuation of our political
institutions." Lincoln warns against the "mobocratic spirit, which...is now
abroad in the land." He states, "There is no grievance that is a fit object of
redress by mob law." Lincoln acknowledges that "[p]assion" played a role in
America's fight for independence. But, Lincoln argues, "Reason, cold,
calculating, unimpassioned reason" will best serve "for our future support and
defence." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A130' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address Before the Young
Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 27 January 1838,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:108-15.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-01-29'>Monday, January 29, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court, a
declaration and praecipe in <name type='case' key='L03179'>Ellis
& Vaughn v. Ransdell</name>. He asks for $200 in damages in the trespass on
the case on promises action. Lincoln also writes, signs, and files a petition in <name type='case' key='L03076'>Cromwell & McNaghton v.
Taylor</name>. Lincoln writes two promissory notes signed by Jonas and Dewey Whitney
[see <name type='case' key='L04572'>Stafford v. Whitney and
Whitney</name>].<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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