<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-01'>Wednesday, November 1, 1848.</date>
            <place key='41.0167, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Lacon, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Dr. Henry . . . and Hon. A. Lincoln addressed a numerous assemblage of our
            citizens from all parts of the county. . . . [Lincoln] declared that the contest was
            between Taylor and Cass . . . and admonished all `Liberty' or Van Buren men . . . to
            cast their votes for Gen. Taylor, and <uLine>not</uLine> indirectly for
            Gen. Cass. . . . After listening about four hours . . . the audience retired, highly
            entertained and instructed."<bibl default='NO'>Illinois Gazette, 4
               November 1848; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A10' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Lacon,
               Illinois</xref>, 1 November 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:14.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-02'>Thursday, November 2, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Henry continue tour.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 27 October 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $2.80
            worth of cloth and $.4.30 in merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin
            Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-03'>Friday, November 3, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Again leaving Henry temporarily, Lincoln goes to Tremont where he addresses
            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='1848-11-04'>Saturday, November 4, 1848.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place> and <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Henry again join forces and address Whig meeting at Pekin in
            afternoon, and at Peoria after dark.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 27 October 1848; Peoria Democratic
               Press, 8 November 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-07'>Tuesday, November 7, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Election day. Lincoln votes for Whig presidential electors.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-11-08'>Wednesday, November 8, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
  ["Information received by the telegraph . . . indicates the election of General
  Taylor, . . ." writes Polk in his Diary. "Without political information and
  without experience in civil life, he is wholly unqualified for the station, and
  being elected by the Federal party and by the various factions of dissatisfied
  persons who have from time to time broken off from the Democratic party, he
  must be under their absolute control."]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-16'>Thursday, November 16, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's bank balance is credited $23.23 in interest. He draws
            91&#162; cash, buys groceries with it, and buys pair of brass candlesticks, charged
            to his account.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-18'>Saturday, November 18, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On back of rent note given him by C. Ludlum, Lincoln writes receipt for
               $90.<bibl default='NO'>Privately owned.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-21'>Tuesday, November 21, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws on his account for $355 to pay bills.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-23'>Thursday, November 23, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln deposits $30 received from client.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-26'>Sunday, November 26, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> By this date Lincoln must have left for Washington. He goes by way of St.
            Louis and Ohio River.<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%3A35' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles R.
                  Welles</xref>, 20 February 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:29-30.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-11-28'>Tuesday, November 28, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys pair of
            gaiters, $1.50, and half yard white crape, 37&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>