<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-01'>Tuesday, September 1, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.0833, -88.1500' teiForm='name'>Carmi, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends Whig barbecue in Carmi. Following parade and flag pole
            raising he speaks in park. He is guest of Edwin B. Webb, also Whig presidential
               elector.<bibl default='NO'>George E. Smith, <title>When Lincoln Came to Egypt</title> (Herrin, IL: Trovillion Private Press, 1940),
               60-62.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-02'>Wednesday, September 2, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.0833, -88.1500' teiForm='name'>Carmi, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln and Webb drive to Mt. Carmel in one-seated buggy. Webb's daughter
            Patty, who sits on Lincoln's lap during journey, is to enter seminary at Mt.
               Carmel.<bibl default='NO'>George E. Smith, <title>When
                  Lincoln Came to Egypt</title> (Herrin, IL: Trovillion Private Press, 1940),
            60-62.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-03'>Thursday, September 3, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.0833, -88.1500' teiForm='name'>Carmi, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln probably speaks at Mt. Carmel.<bibl default='NO'>George E. Smith, <title>When Lincoln Came to Egypt</title> (Herrin,
               IL: Trovillion Private Press, 1940), 60-62.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-05'>Saturday, September 5, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7000, -88.1833' teiForm='name'>Shawneetown, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Political debate between Lincoln and John A. McClernand is held.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 25 September 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-09-07'>Monday,
  September 7, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln debates Josiah Lamborn. "On
  Monday . . . Circuit Court commenced in Equality. . . . Here Mr. Lincoln in
  persuance to the duty assigned him, again 'talked to' our deluded sovereigns.
  His speeches were ingenious, and well calculated to command attention, and he
  was listened to, with so much patience, that the Whigs were in extacies."
  <bibl default='NO'>Register, 16 October 1840.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln and Lamborn also debate again at Shawneetown,
  apparently before they trade blows at Equality.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-08'>Tuesday, September 8, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tradition states that Lincoln spoke in Morganfield, Kentucky, 15 miles
            from Shawneetown, in campaign of 1840. He was accompanied by delegation from
            Shawneetown. While in Morganfield delegation was guest at best hotel at expense of
            George W. Riddell.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-10'>Thursday, September 10, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sixteenth number of "The Old Soldier" is published.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-16'>Wednesday, September 16, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln hears Josiah Lamborn's speech.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 25 September 1840, 2 October 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-17'>Thursday, September 17, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to Lamborn's speech.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 25 September 1840, 2 October 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-19'>Saturday, September 19, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [According to tradition, Lincoln speaks in Marshall in afternoon and Casey
            in evening about this date in September.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;George W. Smith to H. E. Pratt, 5 September 1939.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-21'>Monday, September 21, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln is still stumping lower part of state. McClernand has called on
            Lamborn to come and help him in debates. "Lamborn," comments "Journal," "though well
            disposed to earn something in laboring for the party, has succeeded little better than
            his friend McClernand. Nothing has been heard from Mr. Snyder since his Waterloo
               defeat."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 25 September 1840.</bibl>]</p>
         <p> Lincoln speaks this week at Salem and Mount Vernon. At Salem, according to
            "Patriot," political reporter, he "was completely done up, even his anecdotes failed to
            command attention; and after a speech of one hour, he gave way to McClernand." The same
            witness wrote that at Mt. Vernon "Mr. Lincoln . . . was listened to with attention;
            possessing much urbanity and suavity of manner, he is well calculated for a public
            debator; as he seldom loses his temper, and always replies jocosely and in good
            humor,&#8212;the evident marks of dissapprobation which greet many of his
            assertions, do not discompose him, and he is therefore hard to foil."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 16 October 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-23'>Wednesday, September 23, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Seventeenth number of "The Old Soldier" is published.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-09-24'>Thursday, September 24, 1840.</date>
            <place key='37.7333, -88.3333' teiForm='name'>Equality, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tazewell Circuit Court opens for eight-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-09-30'>Wednesday, September 30, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> 
            <name type='case' key='L01234'>Kellogg v. Crain</name>, action
  in debt, dismissed on 25th for want of prosecution, is reinstated on motion of
  plaintiff, and continued. Stuart &amp; Lincoln are attorneys for plaintiff.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  [Eighteenth issue of "The Old Soldier" is published, numbered 17 by mistake.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>