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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-01'>Saturday, July 1, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
About this time, assembling his thoughts for campaign season, Lincoln 
composes several pages of "fragments" on government and slavery.
<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%3A261' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fragment on Government</xref>, [1 July 1854?], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:220-21; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A262' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fragment on Government</xref>, [1 July 1854?], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:221-22; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A263' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fragment on Slavery</xref>, [1 July 1854?], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:222; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A264' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fragment on Slavery</xref>, [1 July 1854?], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:222-23.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-03'>Monday, July 3, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Summer session of U.S. courts opens in Springfield.]
</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-05'>Wednesday, July 5, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In ejectment suit in U.S. Circuit Court&#8212;<name type='case' key='L02183'>Morrison v. Briggs</name>&#8212;plaintiff's attorneys file declaration and notice. Defendant, whom Logan and Lincoln represent, is ruled to plead in 20 days.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-06'>Thursday, July 6, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02174'>Oliver Martin &amp; Co. v. Saunders</name>, U.S. Circuit 
Court, Stuart, and Edwards for plaintiffs file declaration alleging nonpayment of two promissory notes for $725.20 and $413. Lincoln and Logan for defendant confess judgment in amount of $707.78. Court orders that plaintiffs recover that sum with costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-07-08'>Saturday, July
  8, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln,
  representing defendants, files plea in <name type='case' key='L02119'>Clark v.
  Stigleman et al.</name> in U.S. Circuit Court. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  (This case, filed on first day of term, concerned improvement on portable
  circular sawmill. Plaintiffs, represented by Logan, Stuart, and Edwards,
  claimed exclusive patent rights in certain Illinois counties, and charge
  infringement.) </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-10'>Monday, July 10, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cassius M. Clay, Kentucky Abolitionist, makes antislavery speech. 
When officials refuse to permit meeting in state house, Clay speaks 
outdoors. For two hours Lincoln lies on ground whittling as Clay 
denounces slavery.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town</title> (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 251-54.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-12'>Wednesday, July 12, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files Calvin Stigleman's affidavit for continuance in <name type='case' key='L02119'>Clark v. Stigleman et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-15'>Saturday, July 15, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files defendant's plea in <name type='case' key='L02183'>Morrison v. Briggs</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln gives power of attorney to John P. Davies of Dubuque County, 
Iowa, to locate Iowa land granted Lincoln by Land Warrant No. 52076, 
40 acres.
<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%3A266' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Power of Attorney to John P. Davies</xref>, 15 July 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:223-24; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Affidavit on Land Warrant</xref>, 15 July 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:223.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-07-17'>Monday, July 17, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Edward Seymour of Kaskaskia acknowledging receipt of copy of declaration and notice in <name type='case' key='L02183'>Morrison v. Briggs</name>. Lincoln is for defendant.
<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%3A267' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Seymour</xref>, 17 July 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:224.</bibl>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-07-27'>Thursday,
  July 27, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to George Shaw in response to Shaw's letter of
  July 23. Shaw apparently had asked Lincoln to speak at an event to be held in
  Pekin on August 20. Lincoln responds, "I have promised to be at Mount Morris,
  in Ogle Co., on the 11th of August and on the 18th and 19th at other places in
  that vicinity, so that I could not be at Pekin on the 20th." Lincoln suggests
  that Shaw contact Judge William Kellogg, a former circuit court jurist, who
  "will do it up quite as well as I could." <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to George W.
  Shaw, 27 July 1854, CW 11:8-9.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>