<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-04'>Monday, December 4, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has not arrived in Washington as Thirtieth Congress convenes for
            its second session.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-05'>Tuesday, December 5, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is still listed as absentee.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> has William
            Butler, brother-in-law, buy firewood box costing, with drayage, 60&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-06'>Wednesday, December 6, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is still absent.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-07'>Thursday, December 7, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arrives at capital and takes seat in House.<bibl default='NO'>Globe; National Intelligencer, 8 December 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-08'>Friday, December 8, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to letter from Amos Williams of Danville, Illinois:
            "Herewith I send you a document of 'Information &amp;c' which you can examine; and
            then if you think fit, to file a caveat, you can send me a description and drawing of
            your 'invention' or 'improvement' together with $20 in money, and I will file it for
               you."<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%3A11' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Amos
                  Williams</xref>, 8 December 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:14-15.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-11'>Monday, December 11, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is again appointed to Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. His
            appointment to Committee on Expenditures in War Department stands through 30th Congress.
            He votes in favor of resolution instructing Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into
            expediency of reporting tariff bill based on Tariff of 1842. It passes 96-94.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-12-12'>Tuesday,
  December 12, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against reconsideration of
  resolution adopting rules of House. He votes to reconsider vote ordering
  engrossing of bill prohibiting appropriations from contingent fund except by
  joint resolution.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-13'>Wednesday, December 13, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln opposes motion to permit Mr. Palfrey to introduce bill, without
            previous notice, to repeal all acts maintaining slavery in District of Columbia. Motion
            is defeated 68-89. He votes in favor of resolution instructing Committee on Territories
            to report bill providing territorial governments for California and New Mexico and
            excluding slavery. It passes 106-80.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-18'>Monday, December 18, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against reconsideration of vote excluding slavery from New
            Mexico and California. Motion to reconsider is tabled 105-83. He votes to table bill,
            introduced by Giddings, for referendum by people of District of Columbia on slavery. It
            is also tabled, 106-79.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-20'>Wednesday, December 20, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Washington citizens give complimentary dinner at Coleman's Hotel "to a
            portion of the two Houses of Congress and one or two other guests." Newspaper report
            does not give those present, but Lincoln may have attended.<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 December 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-21'>Thursday, December 21, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against resolution directing Committee on District of
            Columbia to report bill abolishing slave trade there. Resolution is adopted 98-88. He
            votes against tabling resolution whereby sale of public lands shall cease and be
            disposed of to occupants and cultivators at such prices as will indemnify cost of their
            purchase, management and sale. It is tabled 104-60.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-22'>Friday, December 22, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln receives letter from his father asking for $20 to satisfy
               judgment.<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%3A13' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas
                  Lincoln and John D. Johnston</xref>, 24 December 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:15-17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Excitement prevails in House in consequence of yesterday's motion regarding
            slave trade. Southern members plan meeting. [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
               Lincoln</person> buys load of firewood, again using William Butler, for $1.75.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-23'>Saturday, December 23, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed to select committee on erection of marble column at
            Yorktown to commemorate Cornwallis' surrender.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-12-24'>Sunday,
  December 24, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln answers letter he received from
  his father December 22, 1848: "I very cheerfully send you the twenty dollars,
  which sum you say is necessary to save your land from sale. It is singular that
  you should have forgotten a judgment against you; and it is more singular that
  the plaintiff should have let you forget it so long. . . . Before you pay it .
  . . be sure you have not paid." John D. Johnston, stepbrother, asked for $80.
  Lincoln tells him his difficulty is idleness, and offers to pay Johnston a
  dollar for each dollar he earns to May 1, 1848. "I do not mean you shall go off
  to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines, in Calif but . . . close to
  home [in] Coles county."<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%3A13' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas
  Lincoln and John D. Johnston</xref>, 24 December 1848,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:15-17.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-25'>Monday, December 25, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Joshua Speed about uncollected judgment against Thomas C.
            Browne in Speed's favor. Speed has said Logan &amp; Lincoln are to blame. Lincoln
            says they are not, but he would rather lose fee than cause hard feelings. "Nothing of
            consequence new here, beyond what you see in the papers."<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%3A14' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 25 December 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:17.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-27'>Wednesday, December 27, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Horace Greeley, in New York Tribune, has attacked mileage claims of
            members. Resolution is offered directing Committee on Mileage to report abuses and
            inquire whether Greeley's article amounts to allegation of fraud. Lincoln calls for
            division of resolution into two, which is ordered. First resolution is adopted without
            roll call; second passes, 101-43, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' TEIform='div2'> 
<dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1848-12-27' TEIform='date'><?Date goes here?></date>
<place teiForm='name'><?Place goes here?></place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'/> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-28'>Thursday, December 28, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against motion to table bill giving Illinois and other
            western States same amount of public land to aid in constructing roads and canals and
            improving navigation as was given to Ohio. It is tabled 93-77.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-29'>Friday, December 29, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes to terminate debate on bill appropriating $1,000 compensation
            to legal representatives of deceased owner of slave transported west with Seminole
            Indians in 1835. Motion is adopted. He then votes to table bill, but motion is defeated.
            House adjourns until January 2, 1848.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-12-30'>Saturday, December 30, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> draws $30 from
            Lincoln's account. Robert Irwin credits account with $4.22, balance he owes Lincoln for
            legal services.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>