<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-01-01'>Tuesday,
  January 1, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Rawalt of Fulton reports from Finance Committee resolution on
  purchase of public lands by state, and asks to be discharged. This is agreed
  to, but later Lincoln asks reconsideration, which is granted. Senate reports
  bill appropriating funds for completion and furnishing state house at
  Springfield.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-02'>Wednesday, January 2, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln serves for first time as chairman of Committee of the Whole.
            Discussion is held on adverse report of Internal Improvement committee on incorporating
            Albion and Graysville Railroad Co. When speaker resumes chair, Lincoln reports progress
            on bill and asks leave to sit again, which is granted.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-03'>Thursday, January 3, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name is not mentioned in proceedings.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-04'>Friday, January 4, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes with majority to pass bill incorporating Danville. He moves
            House adopt rule that "no bill shall be referred or amended after its engrossment for
            the third reading, without the consent of two-thirds of the members present." Motion is
            lost. [Similar motion he made December 11, 1834 was disapproved.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-05'>Saturday, January 5, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln proposes two rules which are adopted: "(1) No bill shall be
            committed or amended on the question of its passage, except by the consent of two thirds
            of all the members present," and "(2) When any petition, remonstrance or claim is
            presented by a member and such member may not deesire its reading, he may make the
            motion to dispense with its reading and ask its reference at the time of
            presentation&#8212;and the chair may consider the motion as agreed to, unless some
            member should object and so state to the House." He makes brief remarks about fugitive
            slave resolutions, and moves indefinite postponement of "the subject."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A148' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Additional Rules Adopted by
                  the House of Representatives of Illinois</xref>, [5 January 1839], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:125; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A149' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in Illinois
                  Legislature Concerning Resolutions in Relation to Fugitive Slaves</xref>, 5
               January 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:126.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-06'>Sunday, January 6, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [A newspaper reports that Colonel Lehmanowsky of Poland, purportedly a former
    officer in Napoleon's army, delivers an "original, ingenious, and eloquent" sermon in the
    Presbyterian Church in Vandalia. The report adds that Colonel Lehmanowsky "is to deliver a
    series of lectures on the history of Napoleon Bonaparte." Lincoln was in Vandalia and may have
    attended. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>The Alton Telegraph</title> (IL), 19 January
     1839, 2:4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-07'>Monday, January 7, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, House resolves itself into Committee of the Whole, on
            bill appropriating $128,300 to complete state house. Friends of Vandalia, led by Ewing
            and Hankins of Fayette and Ficklin of Coles, attempt to defeat bill. Lincoln leads fight
            for Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-08'>Tuesday, January 8, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House meets briefly. Lincoln's motion to adjourn fails, but few minutes
            later they adjourn. Democrats invite "the true friends of the late and present
            administration" to Ferguson's Tavern to celebration in honor of Jackson's victory at New
            Orleans. Whigs invite "everyone" to House to hear E. D. Baker.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-09'>Wednesday, January 9, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Hankins of Fayette proposes to appoint commissioners to locate new capital
            but is voted down 61 to 23. Proposal by Green of Clay to submit appropriation of
            $128,300 for state house to public vote is turned down 63 to 23; appropriation bill is
            ordered to third reading.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-01-10'>Thursday,
  January 10, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Late in afternoon Lincoln moves to postpone order of day, and
  take up Senate bill appropriating $128,300 for state house at Springfield. His
  motion is lost and House adjourns.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-11'>Friday, January 11, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports, from select committee, bill repealing all laws in relation
            to state road leading from William Crow's in Morgan County to Musick's bridge in
            Sangamon County. Lincoln's fight to hold capital in Springfield succeeds when House
            approves, 56 to 26, appropriation bill.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-12'>Saturday, January 12, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln presents remonstrance of Sangamon County citizens against division
            into four parts. On his motion it is referred to Committee on Counties of which he is
               member.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-14'>Monday, January 14, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Party conflict over public printer ends with election of Democrat, William
            Walters, 65 to 63. Levi Davis and John D. Whiteside are re-elected auditor and
            treasurer, respectively. Lincoln votes for Whiteside. He votes for G. W. Olney for
            attorney general, but W. Kitchell is elected.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-15'>Tuesday, January 15, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings. Penitentiary Committee
            recommends construction of new prison. Larger shops should be built, library and
            hospital added, and warden's salary raised.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-16'>Wednesday, January 16, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes bill establishing counties of Menard, Logan, and Dane. It is
            read twice and referred to committee of Calhoun of Sangamon, Thornton of Shelby, Fish of
            Montgomery, Roman of St. Clair, and Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Bill amending election laws is debated, with Lincoln, Baker, and Hardin
            demanding more care in counting votes.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-17'>Thursday, January 17, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports from Finance Committee plan to pay for internal
            improvements. Federal government should sell to state 20,000,000 acres of public lands
            at 25&#162; an acre. State would borrow money to buy land and resell it at $1.25 an
            acre. Report is tabled. Lincoln enters debate on "partiality" in federal government's
            handling of tax money collected in Illinois.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; Photocopy; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A152' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in Illinois
                  Legislature Concerning Resolutions in Relation to Purchase of Public Lands</xref>,
               17 January 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:132-34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-18'>Friday, January 18, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> John Calhoun reports from select committee, of which Lincoln is member,
            bill to establish counties of Menard, Logan, and Dane. Lincoln adds two amendments and
            bill is ordered engrossed for third reading. Bill making school commissioners elective
            passes 54 to 17. Lincoln and Baker vote nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-01-19'>Saturday,
  January 19, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings. Dawson presents
  "petition and remonstrance of sundry citizens of Sangamon County, praying the
  establishment of the county of Dane, and against a division of Sangamon County
  into four equal parts." On Dawson's motion petition is tabled.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-21'>Monday, January 21, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Act to prevent circulation of bank notes of smaller denomination than $5
            passes House 63 to 20. Lincoln has steadily opposed measure and is only Sangamon
            representative to vote nay. He votes yea on bill incorporating Graysville and Albion
            Railroad Co.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-22'>Tuesday, January 22, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House fights over resolutions concerning independent treasury and recharter
            of national bank. By slight majority Whigs condemn both as "injudicious, inexpedient and
            unwise." Lincoln and others call for various divisions of resolutions and amendments to
            get votes on record.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-23'>Wednesday, January 23, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Several members wishing to change vote on resolutions of yesterday, House
            considers requesting Senate to return resolutions. Motion is lost 51 to 38, Lincoln and
            other Sangamon Whigs voting nay. He votes yea on bill incorporating Charleston Marine
            and Fire Insurance Co.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-24'>Thursday, January 24, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House discusses resolutions relative to examination of affairs of state
            bank at Springfield and Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown. They table resolutions 47 to
            32. Lincoln and Dawson oppose investigation, and Calhoun, Elkin, and McCormick of
            Sangamon favor it.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-25'>Friday, January 25, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House discusses constitutional right of W. G. Flood of Adams to hold his
            seat and also serve as register of Quincy Land Office. Lincoln says he will vote against
            referring to Judiciary Committee, and for tabling until near end of session.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 2 February 1839; Quincy Whig, 9 February
               1839.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-26'>Saturday, January 26, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House adopts four resolutions by large majorities requesting Federal
            government to deposit money collected in state in banks of state. [Money collected in
            Illinois was deposited in St. Louis.] Lincoln votes yea on each ballot.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-28'>Monday, January 28, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln calls up resolutions tabled on 17th concerning purchase of
            20,000,000 acres of public land. On motion of Baker of Sangamon, resolutions are
            referred to select committee of Lincoln, Johnson of Bond, Thornton of Shelby, Crain of
            Washington, and Elkin of Sangamon.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-29'>Tuesday, January 29, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House adopts resolution authorizing joint committee to investigate whether
            state bank is engaging in lead trade at Galena, or trading in salt pork at Alton or
            elsewhere, and what amounts are owed bank by its directors. Lincoln votes nay, but
            resolution is adopted 68 to 13.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and sends to Springfield return on summons in <name type='case' key='L03459'>Rhoda Hart v. Jefferson Hart et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes, for E. D. Baker, letter to William Butler, who has
            complained about Sangamon County division, and writes one of his own to Butler, denying
            that Sangamon delegation has been "bought up."<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%3A156' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Letter Written for Edward D.
                  Baker to William Butler</xref>, 26 January 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:138-39; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A157' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Butler</xref>, 26 January 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:139-40.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-01-30'>Wednesday, January 30, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House, Lincoln
  voting yea, concurs with Senate on inexpediency of legislature acting on
  resolutions which merely involve national politics.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-01-31'>Thursday, January 31, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports from Committee on Finance, without amendment, "act to
            regulate the interest on Auditor's warrants," and recommends its passage. He votes with
            majority to turn down amendment intended to exempt warrants for building state house. He
            is appointed to represent Sangamon on committee to arrange time of holding circuit
               courts.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes to William Butler asking details of Butler's claim for bank fees,
            and relating how Whigs defeated Democrats in fight over "Anti-Sub-Treasury
               resolutions."<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%3A158' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Butler</xref>, 31 January 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:140-41.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>