<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-18'>Saturday,
  July 18, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='41.0167, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Lacon, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arrives unannounced in Lacon, but crowd hears his
  speech. Tariff is his principal subject, "with which he showed himself to be
  thoroughly acquainted. In a most logical, argumentative effort, he demonstrated
  the necessity of a discriminating tariff."<bibl default='NO'>Illinois Gazette, 25 July 1846.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-20'>Monday,
  July 20, 1846.</date> Near <place key='41.1000, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Henry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Accompanied by friends from Lacon, Lincoln crosses river to
  address voters in two precincts of Marshall County located west of Illinois
  River. He speaks in grove on Bonham Farm.<bibl default='NO'>Jeriah Bonham, <title>Fifty Years' Recollections
  with Observations and Reflections on Historical Events, giving Sketches of
  Eminent Citizens&#8212;their Lives and Public Services</title> (Peoria, IL:
  Franks, 1883), 161.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-21'>Tuesday,
  July 21, 1846.</date> Near <place key='41.1000, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Henry, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Dr. Robert Boal, of Lacon, in letter to Richard Yates August
  25, 1860, wrote: "Cartwright <uLine>sneaked</uLine> through this
  part of the district after Lincoln, and grossly mis-represented him."]
  <bibl default='NO'>Richard Yates Papers, Abraham Lincoln
  Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-22'>Wednesday, July 22, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='41.2500, -89.3333' teiForm='name'>Hennepin,
  IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [C. C. Tisler, in "Lincoln's Ottawa"
  (Ms.) quoting John Fiske Nash, former resident of Hennepin, says Lincoln and
  Cartwright spoke at Hennepin during 1846 campaign.
  <bibl default='NO'>IHi.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-07-24'>Friday, July 24, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.5333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Mackinaw, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is scheduled to address citizens of Mackinawtown this
               afternoon.<bibl default='NO'>Tazewell Whig, 18 July 1846.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-07-25'>Saturday, July 25, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.3667, -89.5333' teiForm='name'>Delavan, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is scheduled to speak at seven o'clock in evening.<bibl default='NO'>Tazewell Whig, 18 July 1846.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-27'>Monday,
  July 27, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Sangamon Circuit Court, plaintiff files declaration in 
  <name type='case'>Hampton v. Hall</name> and defendant is ruled
  to enter plea in 20 days. This is ejectment suit in which Lincoln and Herndon
  appear for plaintiff. On motion of Logan and Lincoln, attorneys for plaintiff,
  leave is given to open depositions in <name type='case'>Ryder v.
  Stringer</name>. Fifteen of Lincoln's cases are continued and two stricken.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-07-28'>Tuesday, July 28, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Summer term of Sangamon Circuit Court ends. Nelson Fry gets judgment for
            $810 against William H. Herndon, administrator of James Bell, deceased, and Joshua F.
            Speed. Herndon pays judgment out of proceeds of sale of real estate made October 17,
            1845 to John and Robert Irwin.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-29'>Wednesday, July 29, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln and
  his wife Mary are among the guests in attendance at a gathering held at James
  C. Conkling's home. <bibl default='NO'>David Davis to Sarah W. Davis, David Davis Family
  Papers, 2 August 1846, folder B-1, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-07-31'>Friday,
  July 31, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>A few days before Illinois's Seventh Congressional District
  election, Whig-Party candidate Lincoln distributes a flyer denying that he is
  "an open scoffer at Christianity." Lincoln explains, "That I am not a member of
  any Christian Church, is true; but I have...never spoken with intentional
  disrespect of religion...Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences,
  between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to
  insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may
  live."<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%3A403' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Handbill Replying to
  Charges of Infidelity</xref>, 31 July 1846,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:382-83; <title>The
  Illinois Gazette</title> (Lacon), 15 August 1846, 2:3-5; <title>The Tazewell
  Whig</title> (Tremont, IL), 22 August 1846, 1:5.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>