February 04, 1840

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            <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>
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         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration in <name type='case' key='L03018'>Carter v. Bennett &amp; Ransdell</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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         <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>
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