<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-02'>Saturday, September 2, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, Yates, Harris, and McConnel address political meetings. 
Yates speaks in afternoon and is followed by Harris; in evening 
Lincoln speaks at length on Nebraska question and is answered by 
McConnel.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 6 September 1854.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-04'>Monday, September 4, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has mortgage he took from Ritta Angelica da Silva August 11, 
1854 recorded.
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record PP, 353.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Illinois Journal announces that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen T. Logan 
are candidates for representatives in next General Assembly.
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1854-09-07'>Thursday, September 7, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes John M. Palmer
  of Carlinville, Anti-Nebraska Democrat: "Is it not just to yourself that you
  should, in a few public speeches, state your reasons, [for opposing Nebraska
  bill] and thus justify yourself? I wish you would; and yet I say 'dont do it,
  if you think it will injure you.' " He also writes to Alexander Morean of
  Jerseyville, stating that Yates could not visit that area, suggesting Palmer or
  Gillespie as anti-Nebraska speaker. <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%3A275' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John M. Palmer</xref>, 7 September 1854,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:228;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A274' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alexander B. Morean</xref>, 7 September 1854,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:227-28.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-08'>Friday, September 8, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Richard Oglesby in behalf of Yates, discussing 
latter's drinking habits.
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-09'>Saturday, September 9, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
John Calhoun and Lincoln debate Nebraska question at public meeting 
in court house. Calhoun leads off with what "Journal" calls able 
speech, "but if any of his positions were left standing after Mr. 
Lincoln closed, gentlemen who were present and heard both speeches, 
could not discover them."
<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%3A276' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 9 September 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:229.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Register admits (September 11, 1854) that Lincoln, "with his usual 
ability, made the best of a bad position."
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-11'>Monday, September 11, 1854.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes editorial, which "Illinois Journal" publishes, 
continuing his Saturday debate with Calhoun.
<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%3A277' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Editorial on the Kansas-Nebraska Act</xref>, 11 September 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:229-30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[McLean Circuit Court convenes for term of two weeks.]
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-12'>Tuesday, September 12, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln addresses German Anti-Nebraska meeting. "The speech was clear 
and unanswerable, for it was a plain statement of facts, and of 
sound, strong argument; it was eloquent, for he spoke the deep 
convictions of truth from a heart warmed with the love of his 
country, and the love of freedom."
<bibl default='NO'>Bloomington Pantagraph, 20 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%3A278' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 12 September 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:230-33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-16'>Saturday, September 16, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln appears for petitioner in <name type='case' key='L01629'>Blanton et ux. v. Withers et al.</name>, bill for relief from McLean Circuit Court decree of Apr.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-18'>Monday, September 18, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> deeds 80 acres of land in Curran Township, Sangamon 
County, to Robert Anderson for $1,200. Lincoln joins in deed.
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record PP, 530-31.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-20'>Wednesday, September 20, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01693'>Wheeler v. Illinois Central RR</name>, attorneys argue demurrer to plaintiff's declaration. Court sustains second count in declaration. Lincoln appears for railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-23'>Saturday, September 23, 1854.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Mason Brayman
  that he has drawn on Illinois Central for $100. "The reason I have taken this
  liberty is, that since last fall, by your request I have declined all new
  business against the road, . . . have attended, both at DeWitt and here to a
  great variety of little business for the Co, most of which, however, remains
  unfinished, and have received nothing." <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%3A279' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mason Brayman</xref>, 23 September 1854,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:233-34.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <name type='case' key='L01629'>Blanton et ux. v. Withers et al.</name> is
  dismissed by Lincoln. Issue is joined in <name type='case' key='L01669'>Chicago
  &amp; Mississippi RR v. McLean County Bank &amp; Gridley</name>, bill for
  specific performance, Lincoln for complainant. Court finds for railroad;
  defendant is ordered to pay trust fund and costs, and granted appeal to Supreme
  Court. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-25'>Monday, September 25, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[At Metamora, fall term of Woodford Circuit Court commences.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-26'>Tuesday, September 26, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Douglas, scheduled to speak before Democratic meeting, refuses joint 
debate with Lincoln which Jesse Fell proposes.
<bibl default='NO'>Isaac N. Phillips, ed. <title>Abraham Lincoln By Some Men Who Knew Him</title> (Bloomington, IL: Pantagraph Printing, 1910), 52-57.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln listens to Douglas speak in afternoon. "After candle-light" 
he addresses Whig meeting in courthouse. "Mr. L. spoke of Judge 
Douglas in a less denunciatory manner than is the custom on such 
occasions."
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 28 September 1854; <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 29 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%3A280' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 26 September 1854, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:234-40.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-28'>Thursday, September 28, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01114'>Pearl &amp; Pearl v. Graham et al.</name>, case involving destruction of liquor, from Tazewell on change of venue, Lincoln appears for defendants and obtains change of venue back to Tazewell County. In <name type='case' key='L01780'>Jackson v. Whorrall</name>, clerk enters this record: "defendant in person attended by Abraham Lincoln his attorney appeared whereupon the defendant Moves for leave to amend pleas." As defense attorney in <name type='case'>Pearl and Pearl v. Kelso et al.</name>, trespass, Lincoln petitions for change of venue to Tazewell County. Also changed to Tazewell is <name type='case' key='L01158'>Ricketts v. Goings</name>, debt case, Lincoln and W. P. Brown for complainant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-29'>Friday, September 29, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Jury hears <name type='case' key='L01754'>Davidson v. Burton</name> and returns verdict of $1,700 in favor of plaintiff, represented by Clark, Lincoln, and Manning. In <name type='case' key='L01748'>Coventry &amp; Warwickshire Bank v. Whorrall</name>, record reads: "This day comes the Plaintiff by his attorney N. H. Purple as well as the defendant in person attended by his attorney A. Lincoln." Lincoln enters demurrer, which is sustained. Case is continued at defendant's costs. Also continued at defendant's cost is <name type='case' key='L01747'>Common v. Lucas</name>, appeal, Lincoln for appellant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1854-09-30'>Saturday, September 30, 1854.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01748'>Coventry &amp; Warwickshire Bank v. Whorrall</name> is continued at cost of defendant, Lincoln's client.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>