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<date value='1849-06-01'>Friday,
June 1, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>Lincoln writes to Representative Moses Hampton of Pennsylvania,
with whom he had served in Congress. Lincoln asks Hampton to write a letter
recommending Lincoln for an appointment to the General Land Office. Lincoln
admits that he is not particularly desirous of the job, but that he has "come
to this conclusion, more to prevent what would be generally bad for the party
here, and particularly bad for me, than a positive desire for the office."
Lincoln requests that Hampton write directly to President Zachary Taylor and
not to Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing. Lincoln closes by asking Hampton
to write "as pretty a letter for me as you think the truth will permit."
<bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Moses Hampton, 1 June 1849, CW 11:1-2.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-02'>Saturday, June 2, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
A. G. Henry writes to Joseph Gillespie that he has just learned
Taylor has been persuaded to delay Land Office appointment for three
weeks. "Secretary Preston says Lincoln is the only man in Illinois
that can beat Butterfield, but that he can do it if he comes on,
& his friends back him up. . . . Lincoln will go the moment he
gets home he is now in Coles, but is looked for to-night."
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA—Files.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-03'>Sunday, June 3, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln writes to Dr. J. B. Herrick: "It is now certain that either
Mr. Butterfield or I will be Commissioner of the General Land-Office.
If you are willing to give me the preference, please write me to that
effect, at Washington, whither I am going. There is not a moment of
time to be lost." <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> writes and signs Lincoln's name to
similar letters. While she copies form letter, Lincoln tells Thomas
Ewing that he cannot recommend for Land Office receiver at Vandalia,
which is not in his district. He also writes to Congressman R. C.
Schenck of Ohio, briefing form letter message.
<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%3A73' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Josiah B. Herrick</xref>, 3 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:52; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A74' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James M. McLean</xref>, 3 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:52; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A72' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 3 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:52; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A75' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 3 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:53.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-04'>Monday, June 4, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln writes form letter: "Would you as soon I should have the
Genl. Land Office as any other Illinoian? If you would, write me to
that effect at Washington where I shall be soon. No time to loose."
He sends similar letter to Willie P. Mangum, U.S. Senator from North
Carolina, and William H. Seward of New York.
<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%3A76' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Willie P. Mangum</xref>, 4 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:53; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A874' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 4 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:414.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-05'>Tuesday, June 5, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln sends more form letters, and buys $1 worth of sperm candles.
<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%3A77' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Duff Green</xref>, 5 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:53; Bunn Journal.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-06'>Wednesday, June 6, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Justin Butterfield, in town from Chicago, writes J. J. Brown that
Lincoln has told George W. Meeker, who accompanies Butterfield, he is
not yet candidate for Land Office but "might be." Butterfield
believes this is meant to deceive him while Lincoln circulates
petitions in his own behalf.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Journal, XXV, 141.</bibl>
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Lincoln's account is charged $1.75 for 6 pounds sugar and lemon syrup.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-07'>Thursday, June 7, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Several Whigs, including clerks of circuit and county courts, probate
judge and sheriff, have signed petition in Butterfield's behalf.
According to Butterfield, Lincoln and Stephen T. Logan are trying to
persuade signers to retract and are circulating Lincoln petitions
among farmers.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Journal, XXV, 141.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-08'>Friday, June
8, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes
to Nathaniel Pope, U.S. judge, asking him to state in letter, "what you
<uLine>did</uLine> say to me last spring . . . in relation to my becoming an
applicant for that office? Having at last concluded to be an applicant, I have
thought it is perhaps due me, to be enabled to show the influences which
brought me to the conclusion—among which influences the wishes and
opinions you expressed were not the least." <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%3A78' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Nathaniel Pope</xref>, 8 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:53-54.</bibl>
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<p> [Judge Pope did
not respond as Lincoln hoped. He told Secretary Ewing (Interior) that either
Lincoln or Butterfield would be acceptable. <bibl default='NO'>Beveridge,
<title corresp='books_Beveridge'>Abraham Lincoln</title>, 1:490n.</bibl>] </p>
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<date value='1849-06-09'>Saturday, June 9, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Butterfield sends Lincoln a letter, by Levi Davis, proposing that
neither go to Washington. When Davis delivers letter, Lincoln has
gone to bed and excuses himself from sending written reply because he
cannot see to write. He would agree to Butterfield's proposal if he
were at liberty to do so, but he is so far committed to his friends
that he cannot.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Journal, XXV, 142.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-10'>Sunday, June 10, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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<p>
"On Sunday evening last," observes Register (June 14, 1849), "Lincoln
and Butterfield 'went off handsomely,' the former having a slight
advantage in the start, though Lincoln had the 'inside track,' (in
the opinion of his friends;) it being a 'steeple chase,' . . . the
goal being the federal capital. . . . Bets run high, though the
backers of Lincoln give slight odds."
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<date value='1849-06-11'>Monday, June 11, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
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<p>
According to Herndon, Lincoln's only companion in stage is Kentuckian
who offers Lincoln chew, smoke, and drink, all of which he refuses.
On taking his departure that afternoon, Kentuckian remarks: "See
here, stranger, . . . my experience has taught me that a man who has
no vices has d—d few virtues."
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon & Weik, 244.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-12'>Tuesday, June 12, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
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<p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> draws $10 from Lincoln's account.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-06-13'>Wednesday, June 13, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> from <place key='39.4667, -87.4000' teiForm='name'>Terre Haute, IN</place> to <place key='39.7667, -86.1500' teiForm='name'>Indianapolis, IN</place>.
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<p>
In stage with Lincoln are Abram Hammond, later county judge and
governor of Indiana, and Thomas H. Nelson. Not knowing Lincoln, they
have much merriment, as they think, at his expense. Arriving
Indianapolis at night, they stop at Browning's Hotel, where Lincoln,
to their surprise, is greeted by John McLean, Judge E. Hannigan, A.
S. White, and R. W. Thompson.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon & Weik, 244-46.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-15'>Friday, June 15, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
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[At some point on his journey Lincoln writes memorandum of what he
will tell President Taylor in making his case for commissioner. His
main argument is geographical. Central Illinois Whigs have had no
important patronage, and Whigs of Northwest states are for Lincoln.
"Is the center nothing?—that center which alone has ever given
you a Whig representative?"
<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%3A79' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum to Zachary Taylor</xref>, [15?] June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:54.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-06-19'>Tuesday, June
19, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes
to Thomas Ewing recommending N. G. Wilcox for receiver of Land Office at
Stillwater, Minnesota. <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%3A80' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 19 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:55.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-21'>Thursday, June 21, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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<p>
Justin Butterfield is appointed commissioner of General Land Office.
Lincoln, learning of his defeat, comes back to his room, throws
himself on the bed, and lies there an hour or more.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Journal, XXV, 152.</bibl>
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<note place='unspecified' id='n002' anchored='yes' target='a002'>Basic cause of Lincoln's defeat was
disenchantment of Illinois Whigs with his Mexican War position, plus
support for Butterfield by Whig party's national leaders Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster. <bibl default='NO'>Beveridge, <title corresp='books_Beveridge'>Abraham Lincoln</title>, 1:491n; Herndon & Weik,
224n.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-22'>Friday, June 22, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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<p>
Suspecting that some of letters of recommendation which he secured
have been withheld from President, Lincoln writes to Ewing asking him
to transmit to him (Lincoln) all papers on file in Department of
Interior recommending him for commissioner. He writes endorsement of
William Porter of Sangamon County, applicant for Land Office job, and
forwards to Interior Department. He gets back from Interior his
letter recommending Charles G. Thomas for marshal.
<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%3A81' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 22 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:55; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A82' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: William Porter to Lincoln</xref>, [23] June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:55; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A874' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt to Department of Interior</xref>, 22 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:415.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-06-24'>Sunday, June 24, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln writes to Navy Secretary regarding removal of his "personal
friend" and "fellow Illinoisan," A. F. Patrick, Democrat, from
clerkship, on charge of incompetence. "In such an implication I
suspect injustice has been done him." He requests Secretary look into
matter, rectify it, and find temporary employment for Patrick until
meeting of Congress.
<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%3A83' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William B. Preston</xref>, 24 June 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:56.</bibl>
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<dateRange from='1849-06-25' to='1849-07-03'>June 25, 1849-July 3,
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<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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