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<date value='1852-01-01'>Thursday, January 1, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln buys $2.81 in merchandise. When <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> needs two pieces
of "Border," she sends neighbor, Edmund G. Johns, painter, to store.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal and Ledger.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-05'>Monday, January 5, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln, Archibald Williams, E. Peck, W. H. Herndon, Lyman Trumbull,
Thomas L. Harris, R. S. Blackwell, G. Edmunds, Jr., and W. I.
Ferguson sign call for meeting of citizens Thursday evening to
express their views on Louis Kossuth and revolution in Hungary.
<bibl default='NO'>Register; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A183' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for a Kossuth Meeting</xref>, 5 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:115.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-08'>Thursday, January 8, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Palmer and Gillespie for plaintiffs and Lincoln and Blackwell for defendant try <name type='case' key='L02501'>Tuller v. Voght</name>, appeal from Jersey County, in Supreme Court. At 7 P.M. Kossuth meeting is held. Lincoln states purpose of meeting and he, Trumbull, and others
speak. Lincoln is appointed to committee of seven to draw up resolutions.
<bibl default='NO'>Register.</bibl>
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<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys 2½ yards muslin (46¢) at John Williams' store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 145.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-09'>Friday, January 9, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln reports resolutions drawn up by committee. They express
sympathy for Hungarian, Irish, and German revolutionists, denounce
foreign intervention in domestic troubles, and assert that "it is the
right of any people, sufficiently numerous for national independence,
to throw off . . . their existing form of government, and to
establish such other in its stead as they may choose."
<bibl default='NO'>Register; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A184' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolutions in Behalf of Hungarian Freedom</xref>, 9 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:115-16.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-12'>Monday, January 12, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln and Blackwell lose <name type='case' key='L02501'>Tuller v. Voght</name>. Circuit court decided that Tuller was liable for $1,000 damages for broken leg sustained by Voght when he was knocked off his horse by coach and four driven by Tuller's coachman. Supreme Court reverses decision and remands case with permission to Voght to amend his declaration.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 13 Ill. 271-77.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-15'>Thursday, January 15, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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In Supreme Court Lincoln for plaintiff and Blackwell for defendant try <name type='case' key='L01569'>Dorman et ux v. Yost</name>, appeal from decree of White Circuit Court authorizing administrator to sell real estate of decendent. Lincoln writes and signs assignment of errors.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-16'>Friday, January 16, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<name type='case' key='L02462'>Markley et al. v. Ellis</name> (SC), appeal from McLean County, Lincoln and Trumbull for defense, Wead for plaintiff, is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
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Lincoln buys boots for Robert ($1.75) and 2¾ yards "Black Silk
Nett" (56¢), and silk and ribbon ($2.87)
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal; Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 145.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-19'>Monday, January 19, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
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<p> Lincoln wins his appeal in
<name type='case' key='L01569'>Dorman et ux. v. Yost</name> when Supreme Court
reverses decision of Circuit Court. <bibl default='NO'>Record; 13 Ill. 127-31.</bibl>
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<p> Orville H. Browning of Quincy delivers lecture on "The Dignity of Labor" at
Third Presbyterian Church. "After the lecture," he records in his Diary, "went
to Mr. Lincoln's to supper." </p>
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<date value='1852-01-20'>Tuesday, January 20, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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On January 22, 1852, Lincoln writes to Hezekiah Morse Wead, Lewistown
attorney, about case in federal court. "We finished arguing, and
submitted the case yesterday afternoon, and it is not yet decided. We
had a two days trial of it." He is in U.S. Circuit Court.
<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%3A185' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hezekiah M. Wead</xref>, 22 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:117.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-21'>Wednesday, January 21, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln is busy in U.S. Circuit Court on <name type='case' key='L02310'>Smith v. Gardner</name>.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A186' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Orville H. Browning</xref>, 26 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:117-18.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-22'>Thursday, January 22, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln is doubtful about outcome of case. "They are pressing us very
hard on one or two points," he writes to Wead. "I should not wonder
if the case is decided against us."
<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%3A185' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hezekiah M. Wead</xref>, 22 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:117.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-24'>Saturday, January 24, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Judge Drummond gives his opinion in Peoria Bridge Case, tried in
federal court December 19, 1851 and December 20, 1851. He decides
that legislature has no right to authorize obstruction of navigable
stream. Question whether Peoria bridge is, in fact, obstruction is to
"be settled by testimony on trial."
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 27 January 1852.</bibl>
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Case is later compromised.
<bibl default='NO'>McLean's Reports, VI, 209.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-26'>Monday, January 26, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln and others sign call for meeting to invite Louis Kossuth to
stop at Springfield on his way from Indianapolis to St. Louis.
Meeting is held and Lincoln appointed to committee of 13 which is
instructed to request city council to extend invitation.
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<title>Illinois Journal</title>, 30 January 1852; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A187' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for Kossuth Meeting</xref>, 26 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:118.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes to O. H. Browning about case of <name type='case' key='L02310'>Smith v. Gardner</name>, decided against him on two points, which he states.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A186' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Orville H. Browning</xref>, 26 January 1852, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:117-18.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-27'>Tuesday, January 27, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Kossuth meeting reconvenes. When chairman calls for committee's
report, none of its members is present "although it appeared that
everybody else was here." Virgil Hickox suggests that members of
committee may have feared expense would devolve on them. On motion of
John Calhoun, another committee is appointed to extend invitation.
Lincoln is on it.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Illinois Journal</title>, 30 January 1852.</bibl>
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<date value='1852-01-29'>Thursday, January 29, 1852.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Committee appointed to invite Kossuth to Springfield is called to
meet at 4 o'clock at office of secretary of state.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Illinois Journal</title>, 30 January 1852.</bibl>
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