<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-03-01'>Friday,
  March 1, 1844.</date> Sugar Creek Meeting House, <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon
  County, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig rally is held at early
  candle lighting. In his speech on tariff, Lincoln attempts to convince farmers
  that high tariff makes cheaper goods. Speeches are made by Dr. A. G. Henry,
  Edward D. Baker, and Dr. F. A. McNeil.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 15 March 1844;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A350' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Sugar Creek,
  Illinois</xref>, 1 March 1844, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:334.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-03-02'>Saturday,
  March 2, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Flag is raised over Whig cabin. At night a great assemblage of
  Whigs at cabin celebrates recent Whig victory in Maryland. Dr. McNeil, Lincoln,
  and E. D. Baker speak. Whig choir sings patriotic songs.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 7 March 1844.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-04'>Monday, March 4, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs "Logan &amp; Lincoln for plff." on receipt for $131.63,
            execution of judgment in <name type='case'>Walker v. Lockridge</name>, to
            Sheriff William F. Elkin.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-06'>Wednesday, March 6, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and sends to Beardstown declaration, affidavit, praecipe,
            and bond in <name type='case'>Thayer v. Farrell</name>, signing Logan
            &amp; Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln deposits $9.25, his half of law fee.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-07'>Thursday, March 7, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files, for plaintiff, bill in <name type='case'>Johnson v. Wickersham</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-08'>Friday, March 8, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and mails to Petersburg bill for divorce in <name type='case'>Miller v. Miller</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln pays $1.55 for repairs to his buggy shaft.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-09'>Saturday, March 9, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -89.5167' teiForm='name'>Rochester, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> "There will be a Whig meeting on next Saturday night, 9th. at Rochester. It
            is expected that Lincoln and other speakers will be there."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 7 March 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln's bank account is charged 25&#162; for pair of woolen
               mittens.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-11'>Monday, March 11, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>
         </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes narratio in <name type='case'>Hill v.
            Rague</name>, Sangamon County Circuit Court case.  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-12'>Tuesday, March 12, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>
         </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs receipt for $127.28, payment of debt and interest on
            execution in <name type='case'>Smedley v. Canfield and
               Vredenburgh</name>.  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-13'>Wednesday, March 13, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arrives in Jacksonville in evening.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 22 March 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> En route or by mail he files petition for partition in <name type='case'>Opdycke et al. v. Godfrey</name>, for petitioner, at Taylorville.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-14'>Thursday, March 14, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Circuit Court, trial of <name type='case'>Eliza S. Cabot
               v. Francis Regnier</name>, slander suit on change of venue from Menard County,
            begins. Lincoln writes and files exceptions to defendant's deposition, and demurrer to
            amended plea.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-15'>Friday, March 15, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Cabot v. Regnier</name> is tried before jury, which
            finds for plaintiff and fixes damages at $1600.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-16'>Saturday, March 16, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Baker debate with Calhoun and Cavarly during last evenings of this
     week.<bibl default='NO'>Simeon Francis to J. J. Hardin, 17 March 1844, John J.
     Hardin Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-03-18'>Monday,
  March 18, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan and Lincoln have two cases called
  on opening day of Sangamon Circuit Court. W. H. Herndon serves on grand jury.
  Series of political debates between Lincoln and Calhoun, extending into next
  week, begins in evening. Lincoln makes strong defense of cheapness of articles
  protected by tariff.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Register, 22
  March 1844.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-19'>Tuesday, March 19, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln have nine cases in court. <name type='case'>Ball v. Field</name> is tried before jury; <name type='case'>Webb v. Jacobs</name> they win by default. In <name type='case'>Irwin v. Wilbourn</name>, justice of peace is ruled to send up papers.
            Three cases are continued and one dismissed. By agreement, <name type='case'>Beidler v. Woodruff</name> is set for hearing Thursday. They win <name type='case'>Thayer &amp; Co. v. Canfield</name>, assumpsit suit.
            They appear for plaintiff in all except last two cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-20'>Wednesday, March 20, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln represent complainant, Erastus Wright, school
            commissioner, and obtain judgments totaling $4,597.54 in ten cases. They win <name type='case'>Simpson v. Stockton</name>, assumpsit, when defendant
            confesses indebtedness. Lincoln writes and files defendant's plea and demurrer in <name type='case'>Lesure and Bliss v. County of Menard</name>. Eight other
            cases are called, two continued, and two dismissed. For plaintiff, Lincoln writes bill
            of complaint and declaration in <name type='case'>Dresser v.
               Grant</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-21'>Thursday, March 21, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Seventeen cases are called for Logan &amp; Lincoln. In two, tried by
            court, court considers. They win two jury cases, <name type='case'>Ball
               v. Field</name> and <name type='case'>Dresser v. Grant</name>. In
               <name type='case'>Beidler v. Woodruff</name>, jury is dismissed and
            case continued. Reports are approved in two chancery cases and guardians appointed in
            three others. They win two cases by default, have two dismissed, and defendant ruled to
            answer on Friday in three others.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln fills out printed mortgage deed in transaction between John M. and
            William Bridges and Seth M. Tinsley, which John and William Bridges sign.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-22'>Friday, March 22, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Klein v. Irwin et al.</name>, petition for partition of
            land, is granted by court. <name type='case'>Jackson v. Applegate</name>
            is dismissed. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for complainant in these cases and for
            plaintiffs in <name type='case'>Vaughn, Sandford &amp; Co. v.
               Wetherbee et al.</name>, injunction suit. They appear for defendants in <name type='case'>Lockridge v. School Commissioners</name> and win
               case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln receipt on judgment docket of Sangamon Circuit
            Court that judgment for $476.26, obtained November 22, 1841 in <name type='case'>Blankenship &amp; Co. v. Rockwell &amp; Co.</name>, has been
            satisfied in full. Lincoln writes replication, for plaintiff, in <name type='case'>Hay v. Bryan</name>. He writes separate answers of Benjamin M. Kizer,
            Morris Bird, and Moses Ellsworth, and files in<name type='case'>Groves v.
               Garvey</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-23'>Saturday, March 23, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Court orders complainant's exceptions sustained in <name type='case'>Vaughn, Sandford &amp; Co. v. Wetherbee et al.</name> Logan
            &amp; Lincoln win appeal case, chancery, and assumpsit suit. They enter demurrer and
            defendants are given leave to amend plea in <name type='case'>Latham v.
               West and Lamb</name>. They appear for plaintiff in <name type='case'>Jayne v. Reed</name>, in which defendant files plea.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-03-25'>Monday,
  March 25, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Calhoun continue debate. A
  good crowd attends each meeting and "Journal" gives Calhoun "due praise for
  making the most of a bad cause. The efforts of Mr. Lincoln were distinguished
  for ability, and in all candor we must say, that we did not discover a single
  position raised by Mr. Calhoun that he did not entirely demolish."
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 28 March 1844;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A352' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Debates with John Calhoun
  and Alfred W. Cavarly in Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 20-25 March 1844,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:334-35.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-26'>Tuesday, March 26, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiff in five cases. They lose <name type='case'>Irwin v. Wilbourn</name> when court affirms decision of
            lower court. Their petition for partition of land is granted in <name type='case'>Carpenter v. Trotter et al.</name> Defendant in <name type='case'>Harrison and Sinnard v. Alexander</name> renders full satisfaction of
            judgment against him. Defendants file their answer in <name type='case'>Hay v. Bryan et al.</name>; <name type='case'>Schemerhorn and March
               v. Taylor</name> is dismissed.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-27'>Wednesday, March 27, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has busy day in Circuit Court. In evening he listens to speech of
            John Calhoun which "Register" characterizes as "luminous, convincing, and unanswerable."
            Lincoln answers Calhoun either this evening or tomorrow evening.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 29 March 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-28'>Thursday, March 28, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files plea in <name type='case'>Lesure and Bliss v.
               County of Menard</name>. Jury is called in <name type='case'>People v.
               Joseph Klein and Louisa Hosey</name>. Jury fails to agree and is discharged. Logan
            &amp; Lincoln appear for defendants in this case and in <name type='case'>Taylor v. Taylor et al.</name>, assumpsit suit. <name type='case'>Blankenship v. Center</name> is heard by court. They appear for
            plaintiff in this case and in <name type='case'>People v. Sheppard et
            al.</name>, which is continued on their motion.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-29'>Friday, March 29, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Three cases of Logan &amp; Lincoln are continued and two dismissed.
            They file complainants' replication in <name type='case'>Campbell and
               Dabney v. Spear and Spear</name>. Commissioners' report in <name type='case'>Carpenter v. Trotter et al.</name> is approved. They represent
               complainant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of John T. Stuart, guardian, in petition of Edmund
            Taylor to sell real estate of Washington Ray. He writes petition filed in <name type='case'>Edmund Taylor v. Elizabeth Ray</name>, signing "Logan
            &amp; Lincoln for Petitioner."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-03-30'>Saturday, March 30, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln have 13 cases called. Three they argue before court
            and win, five are continued, one dismissed, and in three others they enter motions that
            defendant be ruled to plead. Court orders parties in <name type='case'>Carpenter v. Trotter et al.</name> to pay costs in proportion to their respective
            interest. Logan &amp; Lincoln represent complainant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>