<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-01'>Saturday, February 1, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion to postpone adjournment from February 3, 1840 to February 5,
            1840, Lincoln votes nay. First number of "The Old Soldier," Whig campaign newspaper, of
            which Lincoln is one of five editors, is published from "Sangamo Journal" office in
               Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-03'>Monday, February 3, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Legislature meets, but record does not disclose that Lincoln is present on last
    day of session. City of Springfield and Springfield Mechanics Union are granted charters.
    Lincoln draws up charter for Mechanics Union.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; IHi&#8212;Minutes of Union.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln deposit $150 cash into their account with a Springfield
    merchant. The merchant debits their account for $250 for "bills payable".<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 3 February 1840, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 185,
     microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-04'>Tuesday, February 4, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig circular written by Lincoln is mailed to leading Whigs in state about
            this date. On state central committee with Lincoln are A. G. Henry, R. F. Barrett, E. D.
            Baker, and J. F. Speed. Circular is intended to rally Whigs for Harrison and to provide
            for organizing state.<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%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Campaign Circular from Whig
                  Committee</xref>, [31?] January 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:201-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration in <name type='case' key='L03018'>Carter v. Bennett &amp; Ransdell</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Springfield's Democratic paper denounces "secret circular of Messrs. Baker,
            Lincoln, &amp; Co. . . . They prefer darkness to light, because their deeds are
               evil."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4 February 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-05'>Wednesday, February 5, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Supreme Court, which convened December 9, 1839, adjourns.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-06'>Thursday, February 6, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration in <name type='case' key='L03575'>Hood v. Gray</name>, and signs Stuart &amp; Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-08'>Saturday, February 8, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln buy $2.62 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
     merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 8 February 1840, Irwin &amp;
     Corneau, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes notice entering himself as security for costs in <name type='case' key='L04847'>Tydings &amp; Widney v. Hathaway &amp;
     Fullenwider</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case. <bibl default='NO'>File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-10'>Monday, February 10, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> All day Whig "Festival" closes with dinner at Clinton House. Lincoln is
            praised for fearlessly and eloquently exposing iniquities of subtreasury scheme in his
               address.<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Register, 15 February 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-14'>Friday, February 14, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Register publishes "refutation" of Lincoln's subtreasury speech of December
            26, 1839, and denounces Whig editors of "The Old Soldier," Lincoln and four others, for
            posing as friends of Andrew Jackson.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-15'>Saturday, February 15, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Second number of "The Old Soldier" is published.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-16'>Sunday, February 16, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L04847'>Tydings &amp; Widney v. Hathaway &amp;
               Fullenwider</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-02-17'>Monday,
  February 17, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L04847'>Tydings &amp; Widney v. Hathaway
  &amp; Fullenwider</name>, and signs "Stuart &amp; Lincoln."
  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> ["Old Hickory," Democratic campaign
  paper, appears for first time today. Both "Old Hickory" and "The Old Soldier"
  continue until Nov. election. On February 25, 1840, Judge Thomas C. Browne of
  Illinois Supreme Court wrote to Henry Eddy that "The Old Soldier" had 8,000
  subscribers and that he expected 20,000.]<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Eddy Mss., transcripts.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-18'>Tuesday, February 18, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, for Stuart &amp; Lincoln, declaration and praecipe in
               <name type='case' key='L04687'>Trotter v. Lasswell &amp;
               Elkin</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-20'>Thursday, February 20, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration in <name type='case' key='L04545'>Spear v. Camp</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-21'>Friday, February 21, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Register prints Whig committee's confidential circular.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-24'>Monday, February 24, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Old soldiers who served under Gen. Harrison meet in Springfield to boost
            Harrison campaign. John Lindsay is elected chairman and T. M. Neale secretary. Call is
            issued for meeting of Sangamon County old soldiers at courthouse March 14, 1840.<bibl default='NO'>The Old Soldier, 2 March 1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-25'>Tuesday, February 25, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases 75&#162; worth of merchandise from a
    Springfield store and charges it to the Stuart &amp; Lincoln account.<bibl default='NO'>Account of Stuart &amp; Lincoln (copy), 25 February 1840, Irwin &amp;
     Corneau Account Book, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-28'>Friday, February 28, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Whig committee, Lincoln, Henry, Barrett, Baker, and Speed, say they will
            superintend "The Old Soldier," but all good Whigs are its editors, and those who fought
            under Harrison are asked to write their views. Democrats object to Whigs organizing,
            but, says their committee, "We will meet, conquer and disperse Gen. Harrison's and the
            Countries enemies!"<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 28 February 1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-02-29'>Saturday, February 29, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, in letter of March 1, 1840, writes Stuart: "Douglas, having chosen
            to consider himself insulted by something in the `Journal,' undertook to cane [Simeon]
            Francis in the street. Francis caught him by the hair and jammed him back against a
            market-cart, where the matter ended by Francis being pulled away."<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%3A216' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 1 March 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:206-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>