<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-03'>Sunday, September 3, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania inquiring as to
            prospects in that state. "The news we are receiving here now, by letters from all
            quarters is steadily on the rise; we have none lately of a discouraging character."<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%3A1' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thaddeus
                  Stevens</xref>, 3 September 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:1.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-05'>Tuesday, September 5, 1848.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> National Intelligencer announces that Whigs will hold mass meeting at
            "their Platform" at 7 P.M. to celebrate anniversary of defense of Fort Harrison, "the
            first of the glorious achievements of the gallant<uLine>Zachary
            Taylor</uLine>." J. E. Brady of Pennsylvania, A. Lincoln of Illinois, J. M. S. Causin,
            T. F. Bowie, T. G. Duckett and Z. C. Lee of Maryland, and L. F. Tasistro of New York are
            expected to speak.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-09'>Saturday, September 9, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> About this date Lincoln and family leave Washington for speaking tour in
            New England. He travels to Baltimore over Baltimore and Ohio and from there to New York
            over four roads subsequently incorporated into Pennsylvania system. From New York he
            probably takes boat to Norwich, and proceeds to Worcester over Worcester Railroad.<bibl default='NO'>John W. Starr, <title>Lincoln and the
                  Railroads: A Biographical Study</title> (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927),
            49-51.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-12'>Tuesday, September 12, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.2500, -71.8000' teiForm='name'>Worcester, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln speaks at city hall.<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%3A2' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Worcester,
                  Massachusetts</xref>, 12 September 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:1-5.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> "He has a very tall and thin figure, with an intellectual face, showing a
            searching mind, and a cool judgment," reports Boston Advertiser, September 14, 1848. "He
            spoke in a clear and cool, and very eloquent manner, for an hour and a half, carrying
            the audience with him in his able arguments and brilliant illustrations."</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-09-13'>Wednesday, September 13, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='42.2500, -71.8000' teiForm='name'>Worcester, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and
  others speak briefly from stand near railroad station. Worcester Spy. He
  attends Whig state convention, and is guest at large dinner given by Levi
  Lincoln, former governor of Massachusetts.<bibl default='NO'>Beveridge, <title corresp='Beveridge'>Abraham
  Lincoln</title>, 1:474.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-14'>Thursday, September 14, 1848.</date>
            <place key='41.6333, -70.9333' teiForm='name'>New Bedford, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In evening Lincoln speaks at Liberty Hall. "Lincoln and the New Haven and
            the Boston and Albany Railroads,"<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin</title> No.
               33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-15'>Friday, September 15, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.3500, -71.0500' teiForm='name'>Boston, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln addresses Boston Whig Club. "He defended General Taylor from the
            charge that he had no principles. . . . He pointed out the absurdity of men who
            professed Whig principles supporting Van Buren, with all his Locofocoism, while the
            Whigs were as much opposed to the extension of slavery as were the Van Buren party. . .
            . It was a glorious meeting."<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%3A3' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Boston,
                  Massachusetts</xref>, 15 September 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:5.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-16'>Saturday, September 16, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.6333, -71.3167' teiForm='name'>Lowell, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The Whigs of Lowell had one of the tallest meetings on Saturday night that
            they have yet held. The large City Hall was crowded in every part. The meeting was
            addressed by Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and George Woodman, Esq., of Boston. . .
            . The work goes bravely on."<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%3A4' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Lowell,
                  Massachusetts</xref>, 16 September 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:6; Boston Atlas, 16 September 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-18'>Monday, September 18, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.3000, -71.0700' teiForm='name'>Dorchester, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The Hon. Abram Lincoln, of Illinois, and the Hon. Geo. Lunt, of Boston,
            will address the citizens of Dorchester on Monday evening next, Sept. 18, at Richmond
            Hall," announces Boston <title>Atlas</title>, 16 September 1848.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-19'>Tuesday, September 19, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.3833, -71.0333' teiForm='name'>Chelsea, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The Whigs of Chelsea last night held one of those meetings which do good
            to the inner man. The Hon. Abraham Lincoln made a speech, which for aptness of
            illustration, solidity of argument, and genuine eloquence, is hard to beat."<bibl default='NO'>Boston Atlas, 20 September 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-20'>Wednesday, September 20, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.2333, -71.1667' teiForm='name'>Dedham, MA</place> and <place key='42.2333, -71.8000' teiForm='name'>Cambridge,
            MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends Whig ratification meeting at Dedham in afternoon, and
            speaks at Cambridge in evening. "Mr. Lincoln . . . is a capital specimen of a `Sucker'
            Whig, six feet at least in his stockings, and every way worthy to represent that Spartan
            band of the only Whig district in poor benighted Illinois," writes one of his Cambridge
            hearers in Boston Atlas (September 22, 1848).</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-21'>Thursday, September 21, 1848.</date>
            <place key='41.9000, -71.0833' teiForm='name'>Taunton, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Mr. Lincoln is well versed in the political tactics of the Western
            country. His speech was full of humor, and was mainly devoted to the political course of
            Mr. Van Buren and the Free Soil party. He said very little about Cass."<bibl default='NO'>Taunton Gazette, 23 September 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%3A5' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Taunton,
                  Massachusetts</xref>, [21?] September 1848, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:6-9.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-09-22'>Friday,
  September 22, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='42.3500, -71.0500' teiForm='name'>Boston, MA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whigs hold huge mass meeting at Tremont Temple. Seward is
  principal orator. He is followed by Lincoln who "spoke about an hour, and made
  a powerful and convincing speech. . . . The audience then gave three hearty
  cheers for `old Zack,' three more for Governor Seward, and three more for Mr.
  Lincoln, and then adjourned; thus ended one of the best meetings ever held in
  this good Whig city."<bibl default='NO'>Boston Atlas, 23
  September 1848.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-23'>Saturday, September 23, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.3500, -71.0500' teiForm='name'>Boston, MA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
               <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln congratulates Seward on his speech. "I have been thinking about
            what you said in your speech. I reckon you are right. We have got to deal with this
            slavery question, and got to give more attention to it hereafter than we have been
               doing."<bibl default='NO'>William H. Seward, <title>Autobiography of William H. Seward</title>, edited by Frederick W. Seward, vol. 1
               of <title>Seward at Washington</title> (New York: Derby &amp;
               Miller, 1891), 79-8on.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He then starts on his journey home.<bibl default='NO'>Boston
               Atlas, 25 September 1848.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-24'>Sunday, September 24, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln takes Boston and Worcester Railroad to Worcester where he boards
            Western Railroad, which takes him to State Line. From there he travels over Albany and
            West Stockbridge Railroad to Albany. From Albany he travels over various
            roads&#8212;now parts of New York Central&#8212;to Buffalo, and Niagara Falls.
            From Buffalo he takes steamer Globe to Detroit.<bibl default='NO'>John W.
               Starr, <title>Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study</title>
               (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 52-56.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-25'>Monday, September 25, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-26'>Tuesday, September 26, 1848.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Albany, NY</place>?</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln meets Thurlow Weed, Whig editor, and they call on Millard Fillmore,
            Whig candidate for Vice President.<bibl default='NO'>Joseph F. Newton,
                  <title>Lincoln and Herndon</title> (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press,
               1910), 36; Galaxy, XI, 247.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1848-09-28'>Thursday, September 28, 1848.</date>
            <place key='42.8833, -78.8667' teiForm='name'>Buffalo, NY</place> and <place key='43.0833, -79.0500' teiForm='name'>Niagara Falls,
            NY</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Learning that steamer Globe will soon leave for Chicago, Lincoln books
            passage. He visits Niagara Falls, with family, who rejoined him probably in late July,
            and is so impressed by volume of water, roar, mist, and rainbows, that he begins
            scientific essay on the tremendous natural phenomenon, abandoning it after several
               pages.<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%3A6' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fragment: Niagara
               Falls</xref>, [c. 25-30 September 1848], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:10-11.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>