<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-01'>Monday, January 1, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes draft to Robert Irwin for $4.22 to balance account.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-02'>Tuesday, January 2, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
House considers bill to supply deficiencies in appropriations for 
year ending June 30, 1849. Amendment is proposed allowing 
sergeant-at-arms clerk at $4 day provided office is deprived of 
messenger. Lincoln votes to strike out proviso. Motion carries. He 
votes aye on amendment, which carries.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-03'>Wednesday, January 3, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes to table resolution whereby House would purchase copies 
of The Constitution, by William Hickey, to be distributed to 
libraries and institutions. Motion carries. He votes to table 
resolution criticizing secretary of treasury for method of 
administering Tariff of 1848. Resolution is tabled.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-04'>Thursday, January 4, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes against reconsideration of vote whereby President's 
message was referred to select committee. He votes aye on resolution 
to raise mileage allowance of "Persons appointed to deliver the votes 
for President and Vice President . . . to the President of the 
Senate" from 12&#189; cents to 25 cents per mile. It is passed 
114-62.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At War Department he swears to facts re Joseph Newman, Mexican War Casualty.
<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%3A16' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Affidavit Concerning Joseph Newman</xref>, 4 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-01-05'>Friday, January 5, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Walter Davis
  of Springfield: "When I last saw you I said, that if the distribution of the
  offices should fall into my hands, you should have <uLine>something</uLine>;
  and I now say as much, but can say no more." In letter to Herndon he denies
  that he has promised Davis post office, but reiterates his intention to help
  him obtain "something" if he can. Congressman Lincoln writes to C. U. Schlater
  in response to Schlater's request for Lincoln's "signature with a sentiment."
  Lincoln writes, "I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can
  think of is, if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less
  distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguished mass of names." 
  <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%3A17' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Walter Davis</xref>, 5 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:18;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A18' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Herndon</xref>, 5 January 1849,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:18-19;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A19' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to C. U. Schlater</xref>, 5 January 1849,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:19.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-06'>Saturday, January 6, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
After acrimonious sectional debate, House votes on committee report 
favoring bill granting $1,000 compensation to slaveowner whose slave, 
joining Florida Indians in 1835, was captured by U.S. troops and sent 
west. Vote is close, and speaker and clerk disagree on count. Lincoln 
votes nay and asks how his vote was recorded.
<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=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A20' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in United States House of Representatives</xref>, 6 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:19.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-01-08'>Monday, January 8, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> "Mr. Lincoln gave notice . . . for leave to
  introduce a bill in relation to school lands which may have been or may be
  relinquished." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He votes against
  suspension of rules to permit introduction of resolution instructing committee
  on judiciary to report bill for apprehension of fugitive slaves. Motion is
  defeated 79-100. <bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-09'>Tuesday, January 9, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes to reconsider vote of yesterday whereby bill to 
establish board of private claims was referred to Committee on 
Judiciary. He votes in favor of reconsideration of vote by which 
Committee of Whole was discharged from consideration. Former motion 
passes, latter fails.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-01-10'>Wednesday, January 10, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>Congressman Lincoln proposes an amendment to a
  resolution regarding slavery within the District of Columbia. The bill, subject
  to voter approval, would effectively stop the growth of slavery within the
  District. If enacted, "all children born of slave mothers within...[the]
  District on, or after" January 1, 1850, "shall be free." The act would offer
  financial compensation to District slave owners in an effort to encourage them
  to free their slaves. Slave-owning congressmen doing government business in the
  District would no be required to free their slaves. <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%3A21' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  and Resolution Introduced in United States House of Representatives Concerning
  Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia</xref>, 10 January 1849,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:20-22.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-11'>Thursday, January 11, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln's boarding house messmates linger at table all evening 
discussing Lincoln's amendment. They heartily approve.
<bibl default='NO'>"Giddings' Diary," <title>Cleveland Post</title>, 31 March 1878; John G. Nicolay and John Hay, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A History</title>, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890), 1:533.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to James M. McLean, former Whig legislative colleague, 
who asked about jobs. Lincoln says he knows nothing about Taylor's 
intentions.
<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%3A22' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James M. McLean</xref>, 11 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:22.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-12'>Friday, January 12, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attends House, for his name does not appear on list of absentees.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-13'>Saturday, January 13, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Mr. Lincoln gave notice of a motion for leave to introduce a bill to 
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, by consent of the free 
white people of said District, and with compensation to owners."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
            <anchor corresp='n001' id='a001'/>
         </p>
         <note place='unspecified' id='n001' anchored='yes' target='a001'>Lincoln never introduced bill, possibly 
because his incoming mail about jobs under Taylor, and his 
colleagues, reminded him that such a move would hurt his patronage 
chances. Nor was there possibility of passage. Hence, serving notice 
of intent was no less effective, as antislavery move, than 
introducing bill.</note>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-14'>Sunday, January 14, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives letters from John Bennett and James Berdan. Former 
desires office in California, latter, Jacksonville lawyer, asks for 
documents.
<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%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Bennett</xref>, 15 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:23; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A24' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Berdan</xref>, 15 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-15'>Monday, January 15, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Besides attending House, Lincoln answers letters of previous day. He 
will do what he can for Bennett. Referring to James Shields' 
nomination and probable election to Senate, he asks Berdan: "How do 
you suppose this, as a fruit of the glorious Mexican war, tastes to 
Breese, McClernand <uLine>et al</uLine>?. Do you suppose they are in 
a mood of <uLine>blessing</uLine> the war about now?"
<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%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Bennett</xref>, 15 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:23; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A24' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Berdan</xref>, 15 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-16'>Tuesday, January 16, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers roll call in House.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-01-17'>Wednesday, January 17, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's name is not on list of absentees, so he
  must have attended House. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-18'>Thursday, January 18, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes against House motion to table resolution reported by 
committee on printing 1,000 extra copies of documents submitted by 
secretary of war relating to harbor at Buffalo. Motion fails and 
resolution, amended, is adopted.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-19'>Friday, January 19, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes against reconsideration of bill granting compensation 
for slave sent west with Indians. He votes against passage, but it 
passes 101-95.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
To J. B. Herrick, who has recommended William M. Black for register 
of Land Office at Vandalia, Lincoln writes: "I shall, when the time 
comes, try to do right, in view of all the lights then before me."
<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%3A25' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Josiah B. Herrick</xref>, 19 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:23-24.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-20'>Saturday, January 20, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In Journal Lincoln's name does not appear on absentee list.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-22'>Monday, January 22, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, as agent of Thomas French, presents two drafts, totaling 
$1,476.67, and sent to him for collection, to Gales and Seaton, 
publishers of "National Intelligencer."
<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%3A26' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gales and William W. Seaton</xref>, 22 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:24.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In House, Lincoln votes to reconsider bill relative to claims of 
Alabama for money spent suppressing Creek Indians in 1836-37. Motion 
is passed.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-23'>Tuesday, January 23, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In House amendment to civil and diplomatic appropriations bill to 
allow congressmen ten cents per mile for mileage, and $2,000 per 
annum in lieu of per diem expenses and all other allowances, is 
defeated, 36-150. Lincoln votes with majority.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Henry E. Dummer of Beardstown, relating results of 
Post Office chore performed for this old friend and colleague.
<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%3A27' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer</xref>, [23? January 1849], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:24.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-25'>Thursday, January 25, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers House roll call.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-27'>Saturday, January 27, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers House roll call.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Evening meeting of subscribers to Inaugural Ball is held at Willard's 
Hotel. Lincoln is elected to board of managers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>National Intelligencer</title>, 30 January 1849.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes to John Murray, Belleville Whig, who has applied for job. 
Others, Lincoln explains, are in line ahead of Murray, and Lincoln 
has no idea how much patronage authority Taylor will give 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=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A28' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Murray</xref>, 27 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:24-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-29'>Monday, January 29, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln presents memorial of Illinois citizens praying grant of 
public land to aid railroad from upper and lower Mississippi to 
Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He votes to resolve House into Committee of Whole to consider bill 
reducing postal rates and correcting franking abuses. Motion is 
carried.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-01-30'>Tuesday, January 30, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against motion to table resolution
  for printing 10,000 extra copies of report of Committee on Naval Affairs on
  railroad across Panama. Vote is tie, speaker votes nay, defeating motion. When
  resolution comes to vote, Lincoln votes aye. It passes 96-86. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-01-31'>Wednesday, January 31, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
District of Columbia Committee reports bill which merely prohibits 
slave trade in District of Columbia. Motion to table is defeated, 
72-117, Lincoln voting nay. Debate on slavery rages, but Lincoln does 
not participate.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening, board of managers of Inaugural Ball meets at Copp's Pavilion.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>National Intelligencer</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>