<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-04'>Wednesday, January 4, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Supreme Court opens in Springfield.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-06'>Friday, January 6, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln pays $30.50 cash on his carriage account.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-09'>Monday, January 9, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, for complainant, writes bill in chancery in <name type='case' key='L04785'>VanBergen v. Singleton</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-01-12'>Thursday, January 12, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> [Illinois State Colonization Society, organized for
  purchasing freedom of slaves and "colonizing" them in Africa, holds its annual
  meeting at First Presbyterian Church. Lincoln and Orville H. Browning of Quincy
  have been announced as speakers, but only Browning attends. "On account of
  illness in his family, Mr. Lincoln was not present." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois
  Journal</title>, 14 January 1854.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-13'>Friday, January 13, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02473'>People ex rel. Stevenson et al. v. Higgins</name> (SC), involving right of trustees of Illinois State Hospital for the Insane to remove superintendent, is commenced. Lincoln is one of counsel for Higgins, although his name does not appear in printed report.
<bibl default='NO'>(15 Ill. 110.)</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Brown for plaintiffs in error is only attorney heard.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-14'>Saturday, January 14, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Brown continues his argument in <name type='case' key='L02473'>People ex rel. Stevenson et al. v. Higgins</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-16'>Monday, January 16, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
McConnel, one of attorneys for defendants in error, makes his 
argument in Higgins case.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-17'>Tuesday, January 17, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Higgins case occupies Supreme Court entire day. In morning Lincoln 
presents case of defendant, and is followed by Edwards for plaintiff. 
Court takes case under advisement, and later reverses circuit court 
decision.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 15 Ill. 110.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-23'>Monday, January 23, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[In Washington Stephen A. Douglas, chairman of Senate Committee on 
Territories, reports Kansas-Nebraska Bill.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-25'>Wednesday, January 25, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to James F. Joy, his associate in impending case of <name type='case' key='L01655'>Illinois Central RR v. McLean County, Illinois &amp; Parke</name>.
<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%3A249' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James F. Joy</xref>, 25 January 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:209-10.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-01-26'>Thursday, January 26, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes W. W. R. Woodbury and William Fithian, Danville, his 
opinion on legal questions involved in estate about which they 
inquired. In conclusion he warns: "Better mention this to W. H. 
Lamon, lest he should, unawares, commit me to the other side."
<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%3A250' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to W. W. R. Woodbury and William Fithian</xref>, 26 January 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:210.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>