<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-01'>Monday, May 1, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Little business is transacted and after listening to obituary on Chester
            Ashley, deceased senator from Arkansas, House adjourns. Lincoln is present.<bibl default='NO'>Globe; <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-03'>Wednesday, May 3, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln requests that 300 copies of speech by William Watson Wick of
            Indiana be sent to folding room for him.<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%3A485' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Towers</xref>, 3 May 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:468.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-04'>Thursday, May 4, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln participates in debate on proposal to pay regiment of Texas
            volunteers for horses lost during campaign. Volunteers are not allowed compensation for
            lost horses, and he opposes preferential treatment for Texas regiment. He votes against
            motion to refer bill to raise ten additional regular regiments to Committee of Whole.
            Motion is defeated.<bibl default='NO'>Globe; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A486' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in United States House
                  of Representatives Concerning Payment of Texas Volunteers</xref>, 4 May 1848,
                  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:468-69.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-05'>Friday, May 5, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends House. Day is devoted to private calendar.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-08'>Monday, May 8, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes aye on motion to go into Committee of Whole, where House
            debates and passes bounty lands bill. There is no roll call on passage.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-11'>Thursday, May 11, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House passes bill admitting Wisconsin to Union. Lincoln moves to reconsider
            and speaks against policy of granting alternate sections of land to states to aid in
            internal improvements and then increasing price of reserved sections. He favors
            appropriations of land with or without enhancement, but thinks it better not to raise
            price. "Having accomplished the object for which he rose, he withdrew his motion to
               reconsider."<bibl default='NO'>Globe; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A487' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in United States House
                  of Representatives Concerning Admission of Wisconsin into the Union</xref>, 11 May
               1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:469-71.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-12'>Friday, May 12, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House takes up private calendar. "The first bill . . . was . . . for
            settling the claim of the legal representatives of Richard W. Meade, deceased. The
            debate was resumed by Mr. Woodward . . . and was continued by Messrs. Lincoln, McLane,
            and Marvin, each of whom were frequently interrupted in their remarks for explanations."
            Bill is finally tabled.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-05-15'>Monday,
  May 15, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House passes bill amending charter of Washington. Lincoln votes
  to reconsider, but motion is tabled.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-16'>Tuesday, May 16, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is not listed among absentees when roll is called to determine
            quorum in Committee of Whole.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-17'>Wednesday, May 17, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends House. Consideration of Post Office appropriations bill
            develops into debate on Congress' power over slavery in territories.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>; Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-18'>Thursday, May 18, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is not listed among absentees on quorum roll call as House goes
            into Committee of Whole.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-19'>Friday, May 19, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The House takes up private calendar. Lincoln votes aye on bill granting
            $280 to legal representatives of Cornelius Manning, deceased, for slave carried away by
            British fleet in 1814. It passes, 125-28, abolitionists opposing it.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-20'>Saturday, May 20, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes aye on bill to purchase papers of James Madison. It passes
               82-59.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In evening he receives copy of Belleville (Illinois) Advocate, containing
            what he considers "laboured justification of the administration on the origin of the
            Mexican war," by Rev. J. M. Peck. He assumes that Peck sent it.<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%3A488' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M.
                  Peck</xref>, 21 May 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:472-73.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-21'>Sunday, May 21, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Peck in attempt to refute his argument. If Peck will
            admit facts, Lincoln will "be obliged for a reference to any law of language, law of
            states, law of nations, law of morals, law of religion,&#8212;any law human or
            divine, in which an authority can be found for saying those facts constitute <uLine>`no aggression.'</uLine>"<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%3A488' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M.
                  Peck</xref>, 21 May 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:472-73.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He also writes to <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
            Lincoln</person>. This is not extant, but referred to in his letter of 24th.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-22'>Monday, May 22, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> After reading "Journal," House adjourns until May 25, 1848 to permit laying
               carpets.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Democratic National Convention meets in Baltimore.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-23'>Tuesday, May 23, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["A remarkably quiet day," records Polk in his Diary. ". . . Congress
            having adjourned over until Thursday, almost all the members, I learn, have gone to
            Baltimore to attend the Democratic national convention."]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-05-24'>Wednesday, May 24, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> From
  Washington, D. C., Congressman Lincoln writes to his wife
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Lincoln</person>: "Enclosed is the
  draft as I promised you in my letter of sunday. It is drawn in favor of your
  father, and I doubt not, he will give you the money for it at once. I write
  this letter in the post-office, surrounded by men and noise, which, together
  with the fact that there is nothing new, makes me write so short a letter."
  <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%3A489' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
  Todd Lincoln</xref>, 24 May 1848,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:473-74.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-05-25'>Thursday,
  May 25, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is present as House convenes.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "At the hour of
  meeting scarcely a quorum attended in either House," records Polk. ". . . The
  members are still absent at Baltimore. . . . About two o'clock P.M. a
  telegraphic despatch was received announcing that Lewis Cass of Michigan had,
  on the fourth ballot, been nominated . . . as the candidate of the Democratic
  party for President of the United States."<bibl default='NO'>Diary.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes Silas Noble,
  constituent, who wants documents for campaign ammunition.
  <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%3A490' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Silas
  Noble</xref>, 25 May 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:474.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-26'>Friday, May 26, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear on roll call.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-29'>Monday, May 29, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Tuck of New Hampshire asks House to consent to introduction of resolution
            directing committees to which petitions for abolition of slave trade have been referred
            to report bill. Antislavery men vote for suspension of rules, but Southern
            representatives, with Northern Whigs, Lincoln among them, defeat motion to suspend.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-30'>Tuesday, May 30, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House passes Post Office appropriations bill. Lincoln moves previous
            question on adoption of amendment, votes on several roll calls on amendments and for
            passage of bill. Debate on administration's Mexican policy follows.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>; Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-05-31'>Wednesday, May 31, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln receives letter from Rev. Henry Slicer inquiring why he was not
            invited to participate in John Quincy Adams' funeral services.<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%3A491' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry
                  Slicer</xref>, 1 June 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:474-75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln attends session of House, where Committee on Public Expenditures
            presents review of annual report of secretary of treasury.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>; Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>