<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-01'>Friday, May 1, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, for plaintiff, moves <name type='case'>McDowall v.
               Humphreys</name> be dismissed, and case is stricken from docket.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-02'>Saturday, May 2, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamo Journal (May 7, 1846) reports yesterday's Whig convention in
            Petersburg: "Lincoln was nominated as the Whig candidate for representative to Congress
            from this Congressional District. This nomination was, of course, anticipated, there
            being no other candidate in the field. Mr. Lincoln, we all know, is a good Whig, a good
            man, an able speaker and richly deserves the confidence of Whigs in District and State."
            Logan places Lincoln's name before convention.<bibl default='NO'>John G.
               Nicolay and John Hay, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A History</title>, 10
               vols. (New York: Century, 1890), 1:245.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-04'>Monday, May 4, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-06'>Wednesday, May 6, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Champaign Circuit Court convenes at Urbana for two-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-07'>Thursday, May 7, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to James Berdan, attorney at Jacksonville, that he is
            morally obligated to attend Coles and Edgar courts in May, but expects to be in Morgan
            on fourth Monday in May and make speech.<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%3A400' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James
                  Berdan</xref>, 7 May 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:380-81.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-11'>Monday, May 11, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Apparently Lincoln is in Charleston to attend cases he mentioned in his
            letter to James Berdan May 7, 1846.<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%3A400' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James
                  Berdan</xref>, 7 May 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:380-81.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Vermilion Circuit Court convenes today.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-13'>Wednesday, May 13, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [War with Mexico is officially declared.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-16'>Saturday, May 16, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> Defendants in <name type='case'>Fithian v. Cunningham,
               Alexander, and Forbes</name> default and plaintiff is ordered to recover debt of
            $3,200 and costs. Lincoln and Murphy are attorneys for plaintiff, but according to
            record, only Murphy appears.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-18'>Monday, May 18, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.6000, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Paris, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Edgar Circuit Court begins five-day session. Lincoln in letter to James
            Berdan May 7, 1846 says he has some cases coming up today in Edgar Circuit Court.<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%3A400' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James
                  Berdan</xref>, 7 May 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:380-81.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-05-23'>Saturday,
  May 23, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='40.1833, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Bath, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> 
            <name type='case'>Sears v. Baxter</name>, appeal
  case, comes up in Mason Circuit Court. By consent, judgment is entered for
  $25.65, amount of note. Appellant is to pay one third of costs, appellee
  remainder. Lincoln's name appears on docket as attorney for appellant, but his
  presence is doubtful.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-25'>Monday, May 25, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In his letter to James Berdan May 7, 1846, Lincoln said he hoped to be in
            Jacksonville to make speech on this day.<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%3A400' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James
                  Berdan</xref>, 7 May 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:380-81.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Gov. Ford issues proclamation calling for 3,000 volunteers. Moultrie
            Circuit Court convenes at Sullivan.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-28'>Thursday, May 28, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court convenes for two-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1846-05-29'>Friday, May 29, 1846.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline> <p> At the outset of the Mexican War, Lincoln writes to
  fellow attorney and Whig John J. Hardin, of Jacksonville, Illinois, on behalf
  of Springfield physician Francis A. McNeill, who "is desirous of going the
  campaign to Mexico, as a surgeon." Lincoln writes, "[McNeill] thinks that
  you...may have the power to give him the place." Lincoln adds, "If...you
  can...give him the appointment, it would very much gratify many of us here, and
  dissatisfy none. We regard him as a very sensible, and very clever man; and an
  excellent physician &amp; surgeon."<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%3A401' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John J. Hardin</xref>,
  29 May 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:381.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-05-30'>Saturday, May 30, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Large meeting of citizens is held in state house in afternoon following
            drill by Springfield Cadets and Berlin Independent Company. Assembly is addressed by
            Gov. Ford, Dr. E. H. Merryman, D. L. Gregg, T. Campbell, and Lincoln on necessity of
            prompt and united action to support Mexican War.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 4 June 1846.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>