<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-01'>Sunday, October 1, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.8833, -78.8667' teiForm='name'>Buffalo, NY</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>?</dateline>
         <p> Globe embarks for Chicago, give or take one day. Distance to Chicago is
            1047 miles, and can be covered in 60 hours. That is "record" time, by shortest distance,
            and Globe goes out of its way to Milwaukee.<bibl default='NO'>St. Louis
               Gazette, 9 July 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-02'>Monday, October 2, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On two days of voyage Lincoln and Levi North of Kewanee, Ill. hold running
            political debate, North defending Van Buren's Free Soil candidacy, Lincoln boosting "Old
               Zack."<bibl default='NO'>Levi North to Lyman Trumbull, 16 April 1864,
               Lyman Trumbull Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-03'>Tuesday, October 3, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Voyage inspires Lincoln to thoughts about how lake boats could be lifted
            over shoals. In subsequent weeks, in leisure time after election, he designs buoy. [See
            also March 10, 1848, and May 22, 1849.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A42' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Application for Patent on an
                  Improved Method of Lifting Vessels over Shoals</xref>, 10 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:32-36.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-04'>Wednesday, October 4, 1848.</date>
            <place key='43.0333, -87.9000' teiForm='name'>Milwaukee, WI</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Globe stops en route to Chicago.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-10-05'>Thursday,
  October 5, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln registers at Sherman House.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Chicago
  Journal</title>, 6 October 1848; Beveridge,
  <title corresp='Beveridge'>Abraham Lincoln</title>,
  1:477.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-06'>Friday, October 6, 1848.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig rally is held at courthouse in evening with Lincoln principal speaker.
            Although called on six hours' notice, crowd is so large meeting adjourns to public
            square. Lincoln speaks for two hours. Chicago Journal (October 6, 1848, October 7, 1848)
            describes his speech as "one of the very best we have heard or read, since the opening
            of the campaign." S. A. Hurlbut follows Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A7' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Chicago,
               Illinois</xref>, 6 October 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:11.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-07'>Saturday, October 7, 1848.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
               <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Hon. A. Lincoln and Family passed down to Springfield this morning on his
            way home from Congress," notes Chicago Democrat.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-09'>Monday, October 9, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and J. Y. Scammon speak at courthouse in evening. After chairman
            "designated the <uLine>spot</uLine> where he should stand," reported
            Democratic Free Press (October 11, 1848), "Mr. L. blew his nose, bobbed his head, threw
            up his coat tail, and in the course of two hours was delivered of an immense amount of
            `sound and fury'." He defends Taylor's seeming lack of principles and urges Free Soil
            men to support Taylor rather than Van Buren.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-10'>Tuesday, October 10, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Hon. Abraham Lincoln . . . arrived at home on Tuesday last," records
            Register October 13, 1848. "We are pleased to observe that his arduous duties since the
            adjournment of Congress in franking and loading down the mails with whig electioneering
            documents, have not impaired his health. He looks remarkably well."</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-12'>Thursday, October 12, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $2 in groceries and pair
            of kid slippers, $1.25.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-16'>Monday, October 16, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln pays 75&#162; for umbrella.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-19'>Thursday, October 19, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln delivers a speech in the evening concerning the upcoming presidential
    election. A local newspaper notes that his remarks are "very sensible and illustrative."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Beardstown Gazette</title> (IL), 25 October 1848,
    2:1-2.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-20'>Friday, October 20, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln has appointment to speak at Jacksonville but postpones his address
            until tomorrow.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 27 October 1848.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-21'>Saturday, October 21, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Murray McConnel speak. Lincoln tries to unite Whigs and Free
            Soil men. McConnel accuses him of misrepresenting his constituents by his attitude on
            war. Lincoln refuses to believe that majority favored war, whereupon McConnel cites Whig
            defeat in last congressional election. "Lincoln has made nothing by coming to this part
            of the country to make speeches," writes Register correspondent.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A8' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Debate at Jacksonville,
                  Illinois</xref>, 21 October 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:11-13.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-10-23'>Monday,
  October 23, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Lincoln attempted . . . to make a
  defence of his course in Congress," reports Register November 3, 1848, "when he
  was most signally `used up' by Ferguson. Lincoln beat a retreat to Springfield,
  swearing that Billy's home-thrusts were<uLine>`unconstitutional
  and unnecessary'</uLine>."</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-25'>Wednesday, October 25, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln presides over meeting of Menard County bar. Herndon is member of
            committee on resolutions.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-26'>Thursday, October 26, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Meeting of Menard bar concludes.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-27'>Friday, October 27, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys 75&#162; pair suspenders.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln and Gersham Jayne sell for $100 their land near Huron bought in
            1836, to Pleasant Armstrong and John Yardly of Petersburg.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A9' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Warranty Deed of Lincoln and
                  Jayne to Armstrong and Yardly</xref>, 27 October 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:13-14.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-30'>Monday, October 30, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Dr. A. G. Henry address Whig meeting at one o'clock.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 27 October 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-10-31'>Tuesday, October 31, 1848.</date>
            <place key='41.1000, -89.1833' teiForm='name'>Magnolia, IL</place> and <place key='41.2500, -89.3333' teiForm='name'>Hennepin,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Henry deliver addresses at Magnolia in afternoon. Lincoln then
            goes on alone to Hennepin where he speaks at seven o'clock.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 27 October 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>