<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-07'>Monday, August 7, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Regular train service begins on Alton &amp; Chicago Railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>Jacksonville Constitutionalist, 3 August 1854.</bibl>]
</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-09'>Wednesday, August 9, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At railroad station Lincoln meets Richard Yates, Anti-Nebraska 
congressman, returning from Washington to his home in Jacksonville, 
and talks with him about running for re-election.
<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%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates</xref>, 18 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:226; <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 9 August 1854.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
(This meeting marks Lincoln's re-entry into politics, caused by 
repeal of Missouri Compromise, which Lincoln said "aroused him as he 
had never been before."
<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%3A65' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps</xref>, [c. June 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:60-67.</bibl>)
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-11'>Friday, August 11, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln takes mortgage from Ritta Angelica da Silva to Lot 5 in Block 
6, Welles and Peck's addition to Springfield. Mortgage is to secure 
debt of $125. Interest at ten per cent per annum is payable annually. 
Principal sum is due in four years.
</p>
         <p>
(See September 4, 1854 and November 24, 1858.)
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record PP, 353-54; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A268' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Mortgage from Ritta A. da Silva</xref>, 11 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:224-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-18'>Friday, August 18, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In letter to Yates Lincoln recalls their meeting of August 9, 1854. 
"I am disappointed at not having seen or heard from you since I met 
you more than a week ago at the railroad depot here. I wish to have 
the matter we spoke of settled and working to its consummation." 
Lincoln asks permission to announce Yates' candidacy, and encloses 
draft of notice he wants to insert in "Illinois Journal."
<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%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates</xref>, 18 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:226.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-08-21'>Monday, August 21, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Instead of answering Lincoln's letter, Yates comes
  to Springfield. (Next day "Illinois Journal" announces Yates' candidacy,
  although worded differently from Lincoln's suggestion. He later wrote that he
  "took the stump [in 1854] with no broader practical aim or object than to
  secure, if possible, the re-election of Hon. Richard Yates to 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=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A65' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Autobiography
  Written for John L. Scripps</xref>, [c. June 1860],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:60-67.</bibl>) </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes and signs foreclosure bill in chancery in <name type='case' key='L03642'>Robert Irwin &amp; Abraham Lincoln v. Samuel Sidener</name>. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-22'>Tuesday, August 22, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives letter from Richard S. Thomas in regard to note he 
and Lincoln hold for collection.
<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%3A271' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard S. Thomas</xref>, 24 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:226.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-24'>Thursday, August 24, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes reply. If owner of note, he says, will agree to take 
$110 and Lincoln's fee, "settle the matter that way. As to the amount 
of my fee, take ten dollars, which you and I will divide equally."
<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%3A271' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard S. Thomas</xref>, 24 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:226.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-25'>Friday, August 25, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, preparing to attend Whig county convention at Winchester on 
Saturday, goes to Jacksonville, where he stays with Yates.
<bibl default='NO'>James G. Miner, <title>Abraham Lincoln: Personal Reminiscences of the Martyr-Emancipator as He Appeared in the Memorable Campaign of 1854 and in His Subsequent Career</title> (N.p., 1912), 1-2.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-26'>Saturday, August 26, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.6167, -90.4500' teiForm='name'>Winchester, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Scott County Whig convention meets. After business there are calls 
for Lincoln, who is in audience. "He responded to the call ably and 
eloquently, doing complete justice to his reputation as a clear, 
forcible and convincing public speaker." Yates makes short speech.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 2 September 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%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Winchester, Illinois</xref>, 26 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:226-27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
This is Lincoln's first speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act.
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-27'>Sunday, August 27, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln spends day with Yates, train schedule preventing him leaving Sunday.
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-28'>Monday, August 28, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place> and <place key='39.3000, -90.4000' teiForm='name'>Carrollton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Harris, Democratic candidate for Congress, has challenged Yates to 
debate at Carrollton. Yates is unable to be present, and writes 
Harris to that effect. Lincoln carries letter from Jacksonville. 
Arriving at Carrollton, he speaks in Yates' place, advocating repeal 
of Nebraska Act but retention of fugitive slave law.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, Register, 1 September 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%3A273' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Carrollton, Illinois</xref>, 28 August 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:227.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-08-30'>Wednesday, August 30, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs bill of divorce for Mary Sinclair in <name type='case' key='L04646'>
Sinclair v. Sinclair</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>