<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-01'>Friday, February 1, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln presents petition of 631 citizens of Sangamon County "praying the
            repeal of all laws authorizing the retail of intoxicating liquors," which is, on his
            motion, referred to Judiciary Committee without reading. He votes yea with minority on
            granting third reading to "act to authorize limited partnerships."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln again writes to William Butler, attempting to make peace between
            Butler and Baker.<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%3A159' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Butler</xref>, 1 February 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:141-42.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-02'>Saturday, February 2, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House, 44 to 36, Lincoln voting yea, tables Calhoun's resolutions declaring
            that Congress should not abolish slavery in District of Columbia, or territories, or
            prohibit slave trade between states.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-04'>Monday, February 4, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-05'>Tuesday, February 5, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes yea with majority to pass, 53 to 23, "act to provide for
            securing to mechanics and others, liens for the value of labor and materials."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-06'>Wednesday, February 6, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and reports from Committee on Finance bill for relief of
            Sangamon County circuit clerk. It is referred to select committee of Allen of Franklin,
            Hankins of Fayette, and Lincoln. He directs through House Senate bill establishing
            Menard, Logan, and Dane counties.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-07'>Thursday, February 7, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name is not in proceedings.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
         <p> He gives receipt for $7.50 to Moses M. Martin for legal services to estate
            of Isaac Martin.<bibl default='NO'>Probate File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-08'>Friday, February 8, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Act to distribute school fund to counties occupies House during morning.
            Lincoln votes yea on amendments making it optional whether fund be distributed or placed
            in bank to constitute trust fund to be loaned on real estate, banks to guarantee 8 per
               cent.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-02-09'>Saturday,
  February 9, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes with majority to raise salaries of Supreme Court
  judges to $1,500 a year. He votes yea on bill to apprehend horse thieves, and
  yea on passage of bill to prohibit betting on elections.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln tells House that
  Democratic protest against Whig antisubtreasury resolutions contains false
  statements.<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%3A161' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Discussion in Illinois
  Legislature Concerning Protest of Resolutions on Sub-Treasury</xref>, 9
  February 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  1:143.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-11'>Monday, February 11, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, from Committee on Counties, reports bill to amend law in relation
            to sheriffs and coroners. It is ordered engrossed for third reading. House begins
            discussion of important revenue bill.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-12'>Tuesday, February 12, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House devotes afternoon to revenue bill. Hardin's amendment that taxes on
            lands owned by nonresidents be paid direct to state treasury is brought to vote. Lincoln
            favors amendment, but House does not adopt it. Motion to engross revenue bill fails.
            Lincoln votes yea.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-13'>Wednesday, February 13, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House passes bill establishing Illinois Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Sangamon
            delegation voting yea. Lincoln votes nay on passage of bill to distribute school fund to
            counties. Vote is 47 yeas and 33 nays.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-14'>Thursday, February 14, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Stuart giving instructions about renewing his note at
            state bank. Money to renew it is in hands of William Butler. He sends note signed in
            blank for Stuart to use. He closes with: "Ewing wont do any thing. He is not worth a
            damn." This probably refers to Ewing's attempt to repeal bill removing capital to
               Springfield.<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%3A162' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 14 February 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:143.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-15'>Friday, February 15, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, House agrees to hear reports of select committees. He
            reports bill for relief of Sangamon circuit clerk, with amendments, which are concurred
               in.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-16'>Saturday, February 16, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House adopts resolution 54 to 33 recommending vote at next general election
            on convention to amend constitution. Lincoln and Baker are only Sangamon representatives
            to oppose resolution.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-18'>Monday, February 18, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Revenue bill is voted down 42 to 40, but vote is reconsidered and bill
            passes 37 to 32. Seven representatives from Sangamon vote yea on both ballots. Lincoln
            votes nay on postponing indefinitely bill to increase capital of state bank.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-19'>Tuesday, February 19, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, House rules are dispensed with, and bill to
            incorporate Vandalia and Alton Turnpike Road Co. is read by title and ordered to second
            reading. On his motion, Menard, Logan, and Dane counties are added to eighth judicial
               circuit.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-02-20'>Wednesday, February 20, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  and reports from Committee on Counties supplemental bill to act establishing
  Menard, Logan, and Dane counties. It is ordered engrossed for third reading. He
  votes yea with rest of Sangamon delegation on bill appropriating $20,000 for
  improvement of Big Muddy River, which passes 52 to 21.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>; Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-21'>Thursday, February 21, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Committee, including Lincoln, is appointed to take up bill vetoed by
            Council of Revision, supplementing "act for the limitation of actions and for avoidance
            of vexatious law suits." On Lincoln's motion, House is granted Vandalia residents
            tomorrow evening for "any public amusement they may choose to indulge in."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-22'>Friday, February 22, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House adopts resolution 56 to 26 authorizing vote on constitutional
            convention. Lincoln votes nay on this and also on Baker's motion to table bill dividing
            state into judicial circuits. He votes yea on allowing presiding officers of House and
            Senate $7 a day.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-23'>Saturday, February 23, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bill increasing capital stock of Bank of Illinois is amended by striking
            out section restricting notes smaller than $5. Sangamon delegation votes yea. On
            Lincoln's motion, bill for relief of Sangamon circuit clerk is amended to include clerks
            of Clinton, Fayette, and Franklin.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes to William Butler of Springfield on renewal of his note: "I
            would rather you should not be at the trouble of sending me a horse, as you kindly
            offered to do. . . . No news."<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%3A167' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Butler</xref>, 23 Febraury 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:145-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-25'>Monday, February 25, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln continues to defend internal improvement system by votes to
            postpone indefinitely bill classifying railroads, and for three fund commissioners in
            preference to one. He votes yea on bill authorizing limited partnerships. Bill fails 42
            to 35.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-26'>Tuesday, February 26, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for bills providing branch railroad to Carlinville from Alton
            &amp; Shelbyville, and for additional $50,000 to be added to $100,000 appropriated
            for Rock River improvement. He votes yea on bill relocating penitentiary, and nay on act
            regulating tavern licenses. License bill fails.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-27'>Wednesday, February 27, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whigs open 1840 presidential campaign at evening meeting. Lincoln states
            object, and suggests committee to draft address to people "setting forth the causes of
            our opposition to the present administration and recommending all the opponents of
            misrule of the Government to unite upon the common platform of Union and
               compromise."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 March 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-02-28'>Thursday, February 28, 1839.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House turns down, 39 to 36, bill to increase capital of Bank of Illinois.
            Afternoon motion to reconsider is accepted, and on second vote bill fails 39 to 38.
            Lincoln, Edwards, and Elkin vote yea. Lincoln votes yea with majority to pass Senate
            bill incorporating Quincy House Co.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>