<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-01'>Tuesday, August 1, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Mason Brayman, for Lincoln's tenant, pays $22.50, quarterly rent, into
            Lincoln's bank account.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-02'>Wednesday, August 2, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Having rejected Senate bill (Clayton Compromise), House frames bill giving
            territorial government to Oregon. Lincoln votes against amendment striking out provision
            extending Ordinance of 1787 to territory. It is defeated 88-114. Bill passes 129-71,
            Lincoln voting for it.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-03'>Thursday, August 3, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends session of House where army appropriations bill is
               considered.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-08-04'>Friday,
  August 4, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p>While a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Lincoln
  co-authors a letter to Secretary of State James Buchanan. Lincoln and
  Representative James Houston Thomas of Tennessee request that Buchanan make
  available to them, "one democrat and one whig," some documents that Mexican
  leader Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna apparently sent to President Andrew Jackson
  in 1836 or 1837. Lincoln and Thomas are interested in "copies of the treaties
  or conventions, which he [Santa Anna] entered into with Texas." Lincoln and
  Thomas want to view the information "to clear up some misunderstanding in
  relation to that matter." In a postscript, Lincoln and Thomas write that they
  "do not insist upon" Buchanan's compliance with their request for the
  information if it "will impose any considerable amount of trouble upon" him. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln and James Houston Thomas to James Buchanan, 4 August
  1848, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration,
  Washington, DC; CW 10:10-11.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-05'>Saturday, August 5, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House debates army appropriations bill and orders it engrossed and read
            third time. Lincoln is present.<bibl default='NO'>Globe; <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-07'>Monday, August 7, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends House session which passes army bill.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> ["The House of Representatives, I learn, have been engaged during the whole
            day in making violent party speeches on the Presidential election," complains Polk in
            his Diary. ". . . This is a great outrage and they should be held to a strict account .
            . . for their wanton waste of the public time."]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-08'>Tuesday, August 8, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports resolution from Post Office Committee, moves its passage
            and speaks briefly. It is tabled.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> "I am remaining here for two weeks to frank documents," he writes to
            William Schouler, editor of Boston Atlas. "Now that the Presidential candidates are all
            set, I will thank you for your undisguised opinion as to what New England generally, and
            Massachusetts particularly will do."<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%3A517' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Schouler</xref>, [8?] August 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:516.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-08-09'>Wednesday, August 9, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  attends House, which sits until 10:40 P.M.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [In
  Buffalo, Barnburner faction of Democratic party, some disaffected Whigs and
  abolitionists form Free Soil Party and nominate Van Buren.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-10'>Thursday, August 10, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House debates Senate amendments to general appropriations bill. Lincoln
            votes against amendment striking out Savannah River appropriation. It passes 95-92.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Senate amends House bill establishing territorial government in Oregon by
            inserting provision extending Missouri Compromise line to Pacific.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-11'>Friday, August 11, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House votes down Senate amendment extending Missouri Compromise line. Vote
            is 82-121, Lincoln against it. Lincoln votes aye on passage of River and Harbor bill. It
            passes 118-62.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-12'>Saturday, August 12, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends House. A variety of business is taken up and House sits
            until 9:15 P.M.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>; Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-13'>Sunday, August 13, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Senate remains in session all night and at 10 A.M. passes Oregon bill with
            House provision excluding slavery by applying "restrictions and prohibitions" of
            Northwest Ordinance.<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-14'>Monday, August 14, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln announces that Committee on Expenditures in War Department has
            prepared report on extra compensation paid Cass and Taylor and asks suspension of rules
            to enable him to move printing of message of President and accompanying documents on
            which report is based. House refuses and adjourns sine die.<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%3A518' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in U. S. House of
                  Representatives</xref>, 14 August 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:517.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-17'>Thursday, August 17, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs form letter from Whig Executive Committee to Whig
            politicians, addresses, and dispatches them under his frank.<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%3A519' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Whig Circular Letter</xref>,
               [17 August] 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
               1:517-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-23'>Wednesday, August 23, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Illinois Journal announces that Whig State Committee has appointed
            "Assistant Taylor Electors for the State at large, with the understanding that they will
            take the stump, and labor industriously in the cause of 'Old Rough and Ready,' from now
            until November next." Lincoln is selected from Sangamon County.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-24'>Thursday, August 24, 1848.</date>
            <place key='39.0667, -77.3333' teiForm='name'>Seneca, MD</place>.</dateline>
         <p> About 600 persons attend bipartisan meeting. "Major George Peter, a
            thorough free-trade democrat, and the owner of a large number of <uLine>slaves</uLine>, and Mr. Lincoln, . . . a high protective tarriffite, <uLine>free soil&#8212;Wilmot Proviso</uLine>&#8212;abolition whig,
            supported the cause of Taylor. . . . Mr. Bouye of Rockville, and Mr. Lowe, Presidential
            Elector for the Western Shore, replied to Major Peter and Mr. Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Republican Citizen (Frederick, Md.), 1 September
            1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-08-26'>Saturday,
  August 26, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='39.0833, -77.1500' teiForm='name'>Rockville, MD</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The Whig Convention of Montgomery county [Md.] met at
  Rockville on Saturday last. . . . On the night of the same day the
  <uLine>Rough and Ready Club</uLine> held a meeting in the
  Courthouse, and was addressed in a most interesting speech by the Hon. Mr.
  Lincoln, of Illinois."<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer,
  29 August 1848.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-28'>Monday, August 28, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The news we are receiving here now from all parts is on the look-up,"
            writes Lincoln to William Schouler. From Ohio particularly comes news of great
            enthusiasm for Taylor. Lincoln has received no particulars from his own district but
            attributes Logan's defeat to the fact that Major Harris, his opponent, is popular by
            reason of his war service. "That there is any political change against us in the
            district I cannot believe."<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%3A520' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
                  Schouler</xref>, 28 August 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:518-19.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-08-31'>Thursday, August 31, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The Rough and Ready Club held a meeting last night at their room on Sixth
            street. Messrs. Brady and Lincoln, of the House of Representatives, delivered addresses,
            in laudation of General Taylor and in opposition to the Democracy. The best spirit
            characterized those present, and many enrolled their names as contributors to furnish
            ammunition for the contest."<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Clipper, 2
               September 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>