<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-01'>Thursday, March 1, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes for motion to reconsider bill, passed yesterday, 
providing for settlement of accounts of officers who collected duties 
in Mexico. Motion fails 86-88. He votes three times on minor matters 
relating to Indian appropriation bill.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-02'>Friday, March 2, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes against Senate amendment to civil and diplomatic 
appropriations bill to provide for extension of U.S. laws and 
Constitution to new territories west of Rio Grande. Amendment is 
rejected, 100-114, on sectional vote.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
This is so-called Walker Amendment to provide temporary government 
for New Mexico and California.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-03'>Saturday, March 3, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers roll call at day and night sessions. House does not 
adjourn until 7 A.M. March 4, 1849. Lincoln stays until end.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He votes aye on motion that House recede from its rejection of Walker 
Amendment to appropriations bill. It passes, 110-107. He also votes 
for Walker Amendment, which passes 187-19.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-03-04'>Sunday, March
  4, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> During night
  House amends Senate amendment providing territorial government for New Mexico
  and California to declare that laws of Mexico remain in effect. Among them is
  law prohibiting slavery. Polk is ready with veto message. About 6 A.M.
  appropriations bill with both Walker and House amendments eliminated is
  presented to Polk. He approves it and crisis is deferred. <bibl default='NO'>James K. Polk,
  <title>The Diary of James K. Polk during his Presidency, 1845 to 1849, Now
  First Printed from the Original Manuscript in the Collections of the Chicago
  Historical Society</title>, 4 vols., edited and annotated by Milo Milton Quaife
  (Chicago: McClurg, 1910).</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-05'>Monday, March 5, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attends inauguration of President Taylor. In evening he, 
Washburne "and a small number of mutual friends" attend Inaugural 
Ball. "We did not take our departure until three or four o'clock in 
the morning. When we went to the cloak and hat room, Mr. Lincoln . . 
. was unable to find his hat . . . and after an hour . . . started 
off bareheaded for his lodgings."
<bibl default='NO'>Rice, 19-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-07'>Wednesday, March 7, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, (Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 1:307) and argues the case of 
<name type='case' key='L02339'>Lewis for use of Longworth v. Lewis</name>. The case originated in the U.S. Circuit Court, District of Illinois in Springfield where the federal district and circuit judges could not agree on a point involving the statute of limitations.
Since they could not agree, they certified the question to the U.S. Supreme Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Transcript of Records, II, Dec. Term 1845, No. 3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-08'>Thursday, March 8, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Attorneys, including Lincoln, in <name type='case' key='L02339'>Lewis for the use of Longworth v. Lewis</name> conclude their trial before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case 
involves the Illinois statute of limitations as applied to suits brought 
by nonresidents. The court announces its decision five days later. 
<bibl default='NO'>Transcript of Records, II, Dec. Term 1845, No. 3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, his party now in 
power, writes two notes to John M. Clayton, secretary of state, 
recommending Dr. Anson G. Henry of Springfield as secretary of 
Minnesota Territory (with supporting recommendation), and Archibald 
Williams of Quincy as U.S. district attorney for Illinois.
<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%3A38' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton</xref>, 8 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:31; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A39' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton</xref>, 8 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:31.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-09'>Friday, March 9, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to William M. Meredith, secretary of treasury, asking 
that he and E. D. Baker be consulted when appointments are made for 
Illinois, as Whigs of that state hold them responsible to some 
extent. Lincoln and Baker write to Thomas Ewing, secretary of 
interior, recommending Mathew Gillespie for land office at 
Edwardsville.
<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%3A41' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William M. Meredith</xref>, 9 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:32; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A40' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln and Edward D. Baker to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 9 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:31.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-10'>Saturday, March 10, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Meredith about several applicants for U.S. marshal for 
Illinois. Benjamin Bond of Carlyle is "personally, every way worthy 
of the office"; but "in my individual judgment, the appointment of 
Mr. Thomas [of Galena] would be better." Lincoln applies for patent 
on "new and improved" manner of combining adjustable buoyant chambers 
with steam boats or other vessels."
<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%3A43' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton</xref>, 10 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:36-37; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A42' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Application for Patent on an Improved Method of Lifting Vessels over Shoals</xref>, 10 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:32-36.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-11'>Sunday, March 11, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
With Edward D. Baker, Lincoln calls on Secretary Thomas Ewing, 
Interior, and discusses patronage. Paul I. Miller, "Lincoln and the 
Governorship of Oregon,"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Mississippi Valley Historical Review</title>, XXIII, 391.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-03-12'>Monday,
  March 12, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to U. S. Secretary of State John M. Clayton
  recommending John C. Richardson for the U. S. Marshall position in Missouri.
  Lincoln states that Richardson, "of Booneville, MO...is a family relative of
  mine." Lincoln adds, "being an office not in my own state, I feel I have no
  right to interfere, farther than to say he is a most worthy and competent man."
  <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton, 12 March 1849, General Records of the
  Department of State 1789-1949, Appointment Records, Applications and
  Recommendations for Office, Applications and Recommendations for Public Office,
  1797-1901, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration,
  College Park, MD.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-13'>Tuesday, March 13, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln loses the trial of <name type='case' key='L02339'>Lewis for use of Longworth v. Lewis</name> before the U.S. Supreme Court when 
the court decided in favor of the plaintiff.  Chief Justice Taney ruled that the plaintiff sued before the statute of limitations took effect. 
<bibl default='NO'>Transcripts of Records, II, Dec. Term, 1848, No. 3.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-03-14'>Wednesday, March 14, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln endorses E. D. Baker's nomination of
  Nathaniel G. Wilcox, Schuyler County Whig, as Navy purser. <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%3A44' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement:
  Edward D. Baker to Nathaniel G. Wilcox</xref>, [14 March 1849],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:37.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln's
  bank balance gains $21 on payment of legal fee by one Keeling. <bibl default='NO'>Irwin
  Journal.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-19'>Monday, March 19, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Sangamon Circuit Court convenes for spring term.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <dateRange from='1849-03-20' to='1849-03-25'>March 20, 1849-March 25, 
1849.</dateRange>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Before departing from Washington for home via St. Louis on railroad, 
stage, and steamer, Lincoln endorses to Secretary of State Clayton 
Edward D. Baker's nomination of himself (Baker) as agent to go to 
California and bring territory into Union as Whig state.
<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%3A45' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: Edward D. Baker to John M. Clayton</xref>, [20 March 1849], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:38.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-26'>Monday, March 26, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.6167, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>St. Louis, MO</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln meets Benjamin Bond, who is en route to Washington seeking 
appointment as marshal. Lincoln writes letter of introduction to 
Secretary of State Clayton. He writes note to House postmaster asking 
that letters Bond wrote to Lincoln and Baker at that address be 
turned over to Bond.
<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%3A46' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton</xref>, 26 March 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:38; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A47' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Johnson</xref>, [c. 26 March 1849], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:38.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-27'>Tuesday, March 27, 1849.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>Alton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, on his way home, writes to Cyrus Edwards explaining that he 
has made no recommendation for General Land Office because, while he 
is for Edwards, Baker is for Don Morrison, and unless Lincoln and 
Baker agree on recommendation, appointment will probably go to some 
other state. If one will withdraw they will recommend the other.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Journal, XXV, 144.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1849-03-29' TEIform='date'>Thursday,
  March 29, 1849.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Carrollton, IL</place>.</dateline>
  <p TEIform='p'>On his way home to Springfield, upon the completion of his term
  in Congress, Lincoln writes from Carrollton to the Secretary of the Navy
  William B. Preston on behalf of two friends. Lincoln recommends John Dickey,
  with whom he and Preston had served in the House. Lincoln explains, "While at
  Pittsburg on my way home, Col. Dickey...overtook me. I knew he desired some
  appointment; and I volunteered to ask him how I could serve him." Lincoln
  emphasizes Dickey's "excellent business capacity, and habits." Lincoln adds, "I
  hope he may succeed in what he desires." Lincoln also asks Preston's assistance
  regarding Dr. Anson G. Henry, of Springfield. Henry wishes to be appointed
  Register of the Land Office at Minnesota. Lincoln explains that he has already
  mentioned Henry's name to Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing, who is
  responsible for making the land office appointments. In fact, Lincoln "urged
  the appointment upon [Ewing] so pressingly, that I believe he will gratify me
  when he comes to fill the office, <uLine>if</uLine> <uLine>he</uLine>
  <uLine>does</uLine> <uLine>not</uLine> <uLine>for-get</uLine> <uLine>my</uLine>
  <uLine>anxiety</uLine> <uLine>about</uLine> <uLine>it</uLine>. Lincoln asks "if
  you will, at some convenient moment, tell [Ewing] to remember Lincoln's man for
  Register." <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to William B. Preston, 29 March 1849, Record
  Group 48: Records of the Department of the Interior, 1826-1985, Entry 15:
  Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1833-1964, Divisional
  Records, 1843-1943, Records of the Appointments Division, 1817-1922, Field
  Office Appointment Papers, National Archives and Records Administration,
  College Park, MD.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-03-31'>Saturday, March 31, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Honorable A. Lincoln arrived in this city on Saturday evening."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 2 April 1849.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>