<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-03'>Tuesday, October 3, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
State Fair is in progress, and politicians make it occasion for 
meetings. In afternoon Douglas speaks in hall of House. Singleton and 
Harris follow with short talks. When they have finished, Lincoln 
announces that he or Trumbull, or both, will answer Douglas next day.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 5 October 1854.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-10-04'>Wednesday, October 4, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At two o'clock Lincoln takes stand and answers
  Douglas. He speaks for more than three hours. Douglas is present, interrupts
  occasionally, and as soon as Lincoln has finished speaks in reply. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 5 October 1854; Register, 6 October
  1854.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Antislavery radicals, under name "Republicans," announce
  meeting next day. Owen Lovejoy tries to induce Lincoln to attend, but he
  refuses. <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%3A281' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 4 October 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:240-47.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-05'>Thursday, October 5, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> to <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln leaves Springfield to attend court in Tazewell County, partly 
with intention of avoiding entanglement with radicals.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A1' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois</xref>, 21 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:1-37.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-06'>Friday, October 6, 1854.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Since there was no railroad connection between Springfield and Pekin, and distance was too great to be covered in one day, Lincoln must have spent most of this day en route. Lincoln writes and sends to Clinton plea and notice in <name type='case' key='L00545'>Dye v. Illinois Central RR</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-07'>Saturday, October 7, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln appears for Benjamin Kellogg, Jr., in two cases. In first&#8212;<name type='case' key='L01211'>Flint &amp; Matthews v. Kellogg</name>&#8212;court finds in favor of plaintiff and assesses his damages at $54.05. In second, forgery case before court May 9, 1854, Lincoln writes and files affidavit for continuance. Two other cases are continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-09'>Monday, October 9, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes order of court, which David Davis signs, permitting complainants in <name type='case' key='L01149'>Wilkey et al. v. Bailey et al.</name> to file bill of revivor. By mutual consent court tries <name type='case' key='L01257'>Green v. Glasgow</name> and orders that plaintiff recover $387.45 and costs from defendant, whom Lincoln represents. He also loses a chancery suit, <name type='case' key='L01207'>Ex parte Doolittle</name>, when the court decides against his client, the petitioner.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-10'>Tuesday, October 10, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
As defense attorney in <name type='case' key='L01214'>Brown et al. v. Ayers et ux.</name>, Lincoln calls witnesses.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-11'>Wednesday, October 11, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
State's attorney dismisses forgery case against Benjamin Kellogg, Jr.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-12'>Thursday, October 12, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Eight of Lincoln's cases are called. Only one is concluded, <name type='case' key='L01261'>Hamilton v. Haines et al.</name>, before court May 10, 1854. Defendants default, and court decrees that they pay to Lincoln's client amount of their mortgage debt and interest, $2,412.33. After motions are made in several of other cases, all are continued, and court adjourns.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-16'>Monday, October 16, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Douglas meet again. Douglas commences to speak at two 
o'clock and does not finish until after five. Lincoln takes stand and 
proposes that meeting adjourn until seven, since his will be extended 
address. At seven people reassemble, and for three hours Lincoln 
speaks, substantially as he had at Springfield.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 21 October 1854; Peoria Press, 18 October 1854; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A282' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Peoria, Illinois</xref>, 16 October 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:247-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-10-17'>Tuesday, October 17, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='41.0167, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Lacon,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Douglas, announced to speak here,
  arrive in town but neither makes address. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Lacon Journal</title>,
  11 October 1854; Herndon &amp; Weik, 300-01.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-19'>Thursday, October 19, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns home.
<bibl default='NO'>David McCulloch, <title>History of Peoria County</title> (Chicago: Munsell, 1902), 150.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-24'>Tuesday, October 24, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln arrives for fall term of Champaign Circuit Court. Whitney 
describes him riding into town "behind his own horse, which was an 
indifferent, raw-boned specimen, in his own blacksmith-made 
buggy&#8212;a most ordinary looking one."
<bibl default='NO'>Henry C. Whitney, <title>Life on the Circuit with Lincoln</title> (Boston: Estes &amp; Lauriat, 1892), 30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Lincoln makes anti-Nebraska speech at court house.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry C. Whitney, <title>Life on the Circuit with Lincoln</title> (Boston: Estes &amp; Lauriat, 1892), 215; Urbana Union, 26 October 1854.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-25'>Wednesday, October 25, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Notations in Lincoln's hand on judge's docket show that he sits as judge in 11 cases this
    term. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes order of court appointing W. D. Somers guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> in <name type='case' key='L01430'>Porter et al. v. Busey et al.</name>, petition for partition continued
    from May term. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-26'>Thursday, October 26, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00439'>Taylor v. Moffett</name>, ejectment, Lincoln for defense, is continued by agreement.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-27'>Friday, October 27, 1854.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks on Nebraska Bill before large audience at North Market 
Hall. Newspaper comments: "The impression created by Mr. Lincoln on 
all men, of all parties, was first, that he was an honest man, and 
second, that he was a powerful speaker. Abraham Lincoln never trims a 
speech to suit a latitude&#8212;he is always the same man."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 30 October 1854; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A283' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Chicago, Illinois</xref>, 27 October 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:283-84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-28'>Saturday, October 28, 1854.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns to Urbana.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 30 October 1854.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-29'>Sunday, October 29, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place> to <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln must have spent entire day driving to Decatur, eastern 
terminus of Great Western Railroad, which he had to take to get to 
Naples next day.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-30'>Monday, October 30, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place> and <place key='39.7500, -90.6000' teiForm='name'>Naples, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, on his way to Quincy to speak on behalf of Williams, 
anti-Nebraska candidate for Congress, writes Yates that as he stopped 
in Jacksonville he learned that the English in Morgan County were 
dissatisfied about Know-Nothingism. To remedy this he suggests that 
copies of letter he encloses be placed in hands of "safe friend" in 
every precinct having substantial number of foreign citizens.
<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%3A284' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates</xref>, 30 October 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:284.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-10-31'>Tuesday, October 31, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.7500, -90.6000' teiForm='name'>Naples, IL</place> and <place key='39.9333, -91.4000' teiForm='name'>Quincy, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln takes stage from Naples to Quincy. It is dark before he 
reaches there. He meets Abraham Jonas, English Jew who is one of his 
most faithful supporters.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A106' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Jonas</xref>, 21 July 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:85-86.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes another letter to Yates, brief, on same subject.
<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%3A285' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates</xref>, 1 November [31 October] 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:284-85.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>