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<date value='1846-02-02'>Monday, February 2, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
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<name type='case'>Ellis v. Locke (SC)</name>, suit to foreclose mortgage
by scire facias, from Cook County, is argued by Lincoln for appellant and Logan for
appellee. Judgment of lower court is later affirmed. <name type='case'>Chase v. Debolt (SC)</name>, appeal from Peoria County, is argued by Powell for
plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-03'>Tuesday, February 3, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Court orders plaintiff to file abstracts by tomorrow in <name type='case'>Buckmaster v. Beames et al. (SC)</name>. Trumbull and Lincoln represent
plaintiff. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<p> [John H. Morrison of Tremont in letter to John J. Hardin says: "Lincoln will
probably get all the vote of Tazewell County even if Hardin were a candidate. The <uLine>regular succession</uLine> principle has been accepted. It is Abrahams turn
now."<bibl default='NO'>John J. Hardin Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago,
IL.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1846-02-04'>Wednesday, February 4, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
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<name type='case'>Rysinger v. Cheney (SC)</name> is argued by Lincoln for
plaintiff and Stuart and Edwards for defendant. Lincoln wins case when court reverses
lower court. He appears with Trumbull for plaintiff in <name type='case'>Buckmaster v. Beames et al.</name>, appeal from Madison, and for defendant in <name type='case'>Wright v. Bennett (SC)</name>, appeal from Menard
County.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-05'>Thursday, February 5, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln for plaintiff and Brayman for defendant argue <name type='case'>Moore v. Hamilton (SC)</name>, appeal from Hancock County. Lincoln
loses when court reverses judgment.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-06'>Friday, February 6, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln appears before Supreme Court in <name type='case'>Sargeant v. Kellogg</name> and moves court to have order of reversal set aside and
case again placed on docket.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<p> He gives Johnson Whaley receipt for ten dollars, fee in <name type='case'>Whaley v. heirs of McElyea</name> in Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Emanuel Hertz, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A
New Portrait</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Liveright, 1931), 2:553.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-07'>Saturday, February 7, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes long letter to Hardin recounting candidacies of Baker,
Hardin, and himself for Congress. He resents Hardin's suggestions of double dealing. He
explains how newspapers mentioned Hardin's name for governor.<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%3A391' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John J.
Hardin</xref>, 7 February 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:360-65.</bibl>
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<p> Lincoln and Fridley argue motion made by Lincoln yesterday in <name type='case'>Sargeant v. Kellogg</name>. Motion is resisted by Peters
and court considers.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-09'>Monday,
February 9, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes B. F. James about recent
article in "Morgan (Jacksonville) Journal" that attempted to show Lincoln
unwilling to have fair expression by Whigs on claims of Hardin and himself for
Congress.<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%3A392' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin
F. James</xref>, 9 February 1846,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:365-66.</bibl>
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<p> Argument is concluded in Supreme Court in
<name type='case'>Sargeant v. Kellogg</name> and court
reinstates case. In <name type='case'>Chauncey v.
Jackson</name>, Lincoln's motion that judgment of reversal be vacated is
allowed, after he files deposition that because of other business he neglected
to notice that defendant was ordered December 31, 1845 to file joinder in
error. Lincoln writes and files his own affidavit in
<name type='case'>Thornton v. Jackson</name>, appeal from Cook
County.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
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<p> Supreme Court adjourns.</p>
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<date value='1846-02-10'>Tuesday, February 10, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [If Lincoln fulfils intention expressed January 14, 1846 in letter to B. F.
James, he leaves to canvass counties to north for nomination to Congress. Democratic
state convention meets in House of Representatives.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 12 February 1846.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1846-02-16'>Monday, February 16, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Hardin writes public letter declining to be candidate for Congress. He
publishes his plan for selecting nominee—primary in place of convention.] B.
F. James in Tazewell Whig February 21, 1846 prints letter and says: "We conceive it due
to Mr. Lincoln, that the people of this district should pay a substantial tribute to his
worth, energy and patriotic exertions in behalf of Whig principles."</p>
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<date value='1846-02-21'>Saturday, February 21, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Springfield Whigs elect five delegates from each precinct to attend county
convention on first Monday in Mar.]</p>
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<date value='1846-02-23'>Monday, February 23, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes answer of Virgil Hickox, which Hickox signs, in <name type='case'>Lamb v. Hickox et al.</name> (filed March 30, 1846).<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-24'>Tuesday,
February 24, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes to fellow attorney and
fellow poetry aficionado Andrew Johnston, of Quincy, Illinois. Lincoln writes
that he is "Feeling a little poetic this evening," and notes that he encloses a
poem that Johnston had "expressed the wish to have." Lincoln asks if Johnston
"would...like to see a piece of poetry of my own making?" He confides that he
has "a piece that is almost done, but I find a deal of trouble to finish it."
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A393' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew
Johnston</xref>, 24 February 1846,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:366-67.</bibl>
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<date value='1846-02-25'>Wednesday, February 25, 1846.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln probably completes his poem of 24 quatrains, "My Childhood-Home I
See Again." He wrote to Johnston yesterday: "I have a piece that is almost done, but I
find a deal of trouble to finish it." He sends first ten stanzas to Johnston April 18,
1846, remainder September 6, 1846, indicating that Lincoln drafted verse, was not fully
satisfied with it, and retained it while considering improvements.<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%3A394' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>"My Childhood-Home I See
Again</xref>, [25? February] 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:367-70; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A393' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew
Johnston</xref>, 24 February 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:366-67.</bibl>
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