<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-01'>Wednesday, March 1, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whigs meet in Hall of Representatives. William H. Davidson, senator from
            White County, is elected chairman. Lincoln states object of meeting and offers
            resolutions favoring tariff, national bank, distribution of public lands proceeds, and
            district conventions. Addresses are given by Lincoln, Henderson, Browning, 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%3A323' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolutions at a Whig
               Meeting</xref>, 1 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:307-8.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-02'>Thursday, March 2, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln makes move toward Congress by suggesting to Richard S. Thomas that
            he become one of two Cass County delegates to Whig district convention. He concludes
            letter with news of Whig meeting held Wednesday evening.<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%3A324' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard S.
                  Thomas</xref>, 2 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:309.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In Supreme Court, on Lincoln's motion, plaintiffs are ruled to file
            abstracts by tomorrow in <name type='case' key='L01619'>Pentecost
               &amp; Pickering v. Maghee et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-03'>Friday, March 3, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court orders reargument of <name type='case' key='L00157'>England v. Clark</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-04'>Saturday, March 4, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, Logan, and Bledsoe, committee appointed March 1, 1843, issue
            address to people. Resolutions are elaborated; Whig success they say will come only if
            all vote unitedly.<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%3A325' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Campaign Circular from Whig
                  Committee</xref>, 4 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:309-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Supreme Court takes under advisement <name type='case' key='L02445'>Dorman et ux. v. Lane</name> and <name type='case'>Frisby et al. v. Ballance et al.</name> (On January 2, 1844, judgment is reversed in
            latter case.<bibl default='NO'>Record; 7 Ill. 141.</bibl>)</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-06'>Monday, March 6, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Springfield Whigs, including Lincoln, meet and agree to hold district
            convention at Tremont.<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%3A326' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John
                  Bennett</xref>, 7 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:318-19.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-03-07'>Tuesday,
  March 7, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In letter to John Bennett, Lincoln urges that Menard County
  Whigs adopt convention plan for nominating candidates and meet and appoint
  delegates to district convention to be held at Tremont April 5, 1843.
  <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%3A326' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John
  Bennett</xref>, 7 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:318-19.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-09'>Thursday, March 9, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes declaration in <name type='case' key='L02961'>Mallory v. Maxey et al.</name>, signing "Logan and Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-16'>Thursday, March 16, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes affidavit of Stacey B. Opdycke in <name type='case' key='L01270'>Opdycke v. Hammett &amp; Hammett</name>, Tazewell
            Circuit Court case, and mails to Tremont, where it is filed March 21, 1843.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [State central committee postpones district convention until first Monday
            in May. They do this, they say, because John J. Hardin, now in Kentucky, understood this
            was the time, and also to secure party harmony.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 March 1843.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-17'>Friday, March 17, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Register reports: "Our ears are stunned here, just now, by the din of the
            Whigs, concerning Lincoln and Baker, as to which shall go to Congress from this
            district. . . .</p>
         <p> "The Junto are organized here&#8212;they have their secret agents ready
            to visit the several counties. . . . They will choke down the throats of the Whigs of
            Tazewell, Morgan, Scott, . . . whatever candidate they please. . . .</p>
         <p> "Next Monday . . . the Whigs of Sangamon are to make choice between Lincoln
            and Baker. Whichever candidate is defeated, is to withdraw. . . . This is done in order
            to give Sangamon the candidate. . . . Lincoln, Baker, and Logan, have all to be
            satisfied in turn, before any other county can get even a slice. Poor Stuart! he is
            tetotally forgotten."</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-18'>Saturday, March 18, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up bill of complaint and affidavit for injunction for Samuel
            Renshaw against Hezekiah Thatcher and James Barth.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-20'>Monday, March 20, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon County Whigs convene in state house to select delegates to seventh
            congressional district convention, and to select candidate for Congress. After several
            ballots, Lincoln withdraws and Baker is chosen. Lincoln is chosen one of eight
            delegates. He writes Speed that in getting Baker the nomination, he will be like
            groomsman to man who has cut him out.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 24
               March 1843; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A327' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 24 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:319.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-21'>Tuesday, March 21, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon Circuit Court opens for term of ten days. Logan &amp; Lincoln
            have three cases continued and two dismissed. Defendant enters his appearance in <name type='case' key='L03552'>Hill v. Warner</name>. Logan &amp;
            Lincoln appear for plaintiff and Strong for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-03-22'>Wednesday, March 22, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp;
  Lincoln have 17 cases called. Three are continued, three dismissed, and two set
  for hearing tomorrow. They obtain judgment in five cases and file pleas in two
  others. In <name type='case' key='L02961'>Mallory v. Maxey et
  al.</name>, plaintiff, their client, is ruled to show cause why he should not
  give security for costs. <name type='case' key='L03513'>Wm. H.
  Herndon v. J. C. Crowder</name> is dismissed at defendant's cost. Lincoln
  appears for Herndon, his future law partner.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes, signs, and
  files, for defendant, plea in <name type='case' key='L04849'>Urquhart v. Gray</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-23'>Thursday, March 23, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judgment for $1,056.39 is awarded plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L02730'>Speed v. Boice</name>. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for
            plaintiff and Baker and Bledsoe for defendant. On Lincoln's motion, plaintiff is ruled
            to file declaration by Monday morning in <name type='case' key='L03363'>Davis v. Hanson</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L02961'>Mallory v. Maxey et al.</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='1843-03-24'>Friday, March 24, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln win two divorce suits, and <name type='case' key='L02776'>Brown v. Broadwell</name> in which they appear for
            defendant. <name type='case' key='L03274'>Frink, Walker &amp; Co. v.
               DeCamp</name> is argued before jury; plaintiff takes nonsuit. <name type='case' key='L03549'>Hill v. Thatcher et al.</name> is dismissed; <name type='case' key='L04057'>Miller v. A. Freeman &amp; Co.</name> is
            argued and jury retires. They obtain leave to amend plea in <name type='case' key='L04849'>Urquhart v. Gray</name>. They represent plaintiffs in last
            three cases, defendants in others.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Speed on business and politics.<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%3A327' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 24 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:319.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-25'>Saturday, March 25, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln win <name type='case' key='L04057'>Miller v. A. Freeman &amp; Co.</name> when jury returns verdict for defendant.
            Robbins, attorney for plaintiff, enters motion for new trial and files reasons.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-26'>Sunday, March 26, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to letter received yesterday from Martin S. Morris, friend
            of New Salem days. He explains reason Baker was endorsed for Congress by Sangamon County
            Whigs. News that Menard County may instruct its district convention delegates for
            Lincoln is very pleasing and he urges it be done.<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%3A328' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Martin S.
                  Morris</xref>, 26 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:319-21.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-27'>Monday, March 27, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Sangamon Circuit Court 14 chancery cases and one trespass case are
            continued on motion of Logan &amp; Lincoln and four cases are dismissed. They win
               <name type='case' key='L03990'>Klein v. Carrigan</name> in which they
            appear for plaintiff and Baker and Bledsoe for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-28'>Tuesday, March 28, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Logan &amp; Lincoln, attorneys for plaintiff, <name type='case' key='L03147'>Dormody v. Cavanaugh</name>, assumpsit suit,
            is dismissed at cost of their client.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-29'>Wednesday, March 29, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03669'>Jackson v. Applegate</name>, chancery
            case, is continued. Plaintiff files his replication in <name type='case' key='L04849'>Urquhart v. Gray</name>, assumpsit suit. Logan &amp; Lincoln
            appear for plaintiff and defendant, respectively.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-03-30'>Thursday, March 30, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02606'>Barret v. Fulton et al.</name>, suit
            involving ownership of lots in Springfield, is won by plaintiff, Logan &amp;
            Lincoln's client. They lose <name type='case' key='L04849'>Urquhart v.
               Gray</name> when jury awards plaintiff $50. Three cases are continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes court decree in <name type='case' key='L02606'>Barret v. Fulton et al.</name> He writes and files affidavit in <name type='case' key='L04727'>Trailor v. Hill</name>, which Hill swears,
            and writes bill of divorce in <name type='case' key='L04512'>Rudder v.
               Rudder</name> for petitioner.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy;
               Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-03-31'>Friday,
  March 31, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> 
            <name type='case'>Williams v. Reeves</name>, only case called for Logan &amp;
  Lincoln, is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>