February 16, 1844

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-02-16'>Friday,
  February 16, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Simeon Ryder about his
  chancery suit against Daniel Stringer and heirs of Edward Mitchell. On November
  30, 1843, Logan &amp; Lincoln obtained decree against Stringer in favor of
  Ryder for former's debt of $300 with interest at 7 per cent from January 1,
  1836.<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%3A347' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simeon
  Ryder</xref>, 16 February 1844, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:332.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Illustrative of
  feeling between Whigs and Democrats in Springfield are these lines from
  Register: "Lincoln, another member of the Junto . . . is our jester and
  mountebank. . . . We have had him appointed a candidate for Clay elector. This
  we hope will buy him off from being a candidate for Congress. . . . We intend
  to send Lincoln to Linder's county (Coles) to make speeches. Lincoln is a
  long-legged varmint, and great at jumping . . . out of the windows of the State
  House. . . . He can make a speech which is all length and height like himself,
  and no breadth or thickness."]</p>
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