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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-08-03'>Monday, August 3, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Election day. Lincoln votes Whig ticket for all other offices, and for
            Cartwright for Congress. He gets 919 votes to 450 for Cartwright in Springfield. Seventh
            district of 11 counties gives Lincoln 6,340 votes, 4,829 for Cartwright. Elihu Wolcott,
            Liberty party candidate, receives 249 votes. Lincoln's majority of 1,262 votes over both
            opponents is unprecedented.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-08-04'>Tuesday, August 4, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's election as only Whig congressman from Illinois brings comment
            in Democratic newspapers: "We had hoped better results would have followed the
            nomination of Mr. Cartwright. But `General Apathy' seems to have controlled the
            Democratic party&#8212;and wherever he is commander-in-chief defeat ensues, as a
            natural consequence. Better luck next time."<bibl default='NO'>Illinois
               State Gazette (Shawneetown), 20 August 1846.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-08-11'>Tuesday, August 11, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Allen Ford, editor of Illinois Gazette, on campaign
            "infidelity" charge, enclosing his statement on subject which Ford prints August 15,
               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%3A404' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Allen N.
                  Ford</xref>, 11 August 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:383-84.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-08-22'>Saturday, August 22, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes supplemental bill in <name type='case'>Waggoner and Waggoner v. Eastep</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-08-31'>Monday, August 31, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and swears answer to amended bill in <name type='case'>Lamb v. Hickox et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln buys bucket (25&#162;) and 50&#162; pair suspenders.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [J. B. Watson reports to Board of Visitors of Sangamon County Temperance
            Union that Lincoln has addressed Springfield Juvenile Society and that three have signed
            abstinence pledge.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Minutes of the
               Sangamon County Temperance Union.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>