<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-01'>Tuesday, July 1, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Court decides for plaintiffs in railroad case, involving seizure of 
43 railroad cars. Defendant, says court, owes $3,480.72 and charges 
of $454.60. Court allows appeal.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-04'>Friday, July 4, 1856.</date>
            <place key='41.3667, -89.4500' teiForm='name'>Princeton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Republicans celebrate Fourth with large rally for Fremont and 
Bissell, candidates for President and governor. Party newspapers 
estimate crowd at ten thousand. Lincoln, Ebenezer Peck, Joseph Knox, 
Owen Lovejoy and others speak.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 7 July 1856; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A372' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Princeton, Illinois</xref>, 4 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:346-47.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-07'>Monday, July 7, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>?
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has Obed Lewis make minor repairs (25&#162;) on his buggy.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes David Davis deploring defeat of Leonard Swett of 
Bloomington for Congress, and nomination of Owen Lovejoy.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-07-09'>Wednesday, July 9, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> To Henry C. Whitney Lincoln writes his opinion of
  Republican nomination in Bloomington congressional district. "It turned me
  blind when I first heard Swett was beaten, and Lovejoy nominated; but after
  much anxious reflection, I really believe it is best to let it stand. This, of
  course, I wish to be confidential." <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%3A373' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 9 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:347.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-10'>Thursday, July 10, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln replies to letter from James Berdan in which plan to unite 
Fremont and Fillmore vote against Buchanan is outlined. "A union of 
our strength, to be effected in some way, is indispensable to our 
carrying the State against Buchanan." After suggesting alternative 
plan, Lincoln promises to confer with party friends in Chicago when 
he goes there on 15th.
<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%3A374' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Berdan</xref>, 10 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:347-48.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-12'>Saturday, July 12, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes belated reply to letter from James W. Grimes inviting 
him to speak in Iowa. He apologizes for delay, saying invitation 
"plagued" him. "I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, 
preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, 
but they lost the state." Nevertheless, if Democrats have called in 
"foreign" speakers, he will be glad to come.
<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%3A375' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James W. Grimes</xref>, 12 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:348.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-14'>Monday, July 14, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files $500 bond signed by officials, for appeal, 
of Ohio &amp; Mississippi Railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-15'>Tuesday, July 15, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln goes to Chicago "to attend to a little business in court." He 
expects to be there two weeks.
<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%3A375' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James W. Grimes</xref>, 12 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:348.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Anticipating his arrival, Chicago Democratic Press hopes "he will 
consent to address the people upon the great political issues of the 
day. Should his arrangements permit him to meet the universal wish of 
the people of Chicago, the time and place of the meeting will be 
announced."
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-07-17'>Thursday, July 17, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='41.8333, -89.4667' teiForm='name'>Dixon, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is in Dixon, Illinois, where
  he speaks to Republicans attending a "Ratification meeting." A newspaper
  reports, "He is about six feet high, crooked-legged, stoop shouldered, spare
  built, and anything but handsome in the face. It is plain that nature took but
  little trouble in fashioning his outer man...As a close observer and cogent
  reasoner, he has few equals and perhaps no superior in the world. His language
  is pure and respectful, he attacks no man's character or motives, but fights
  with arguments...He spoke full two hours and still the audience cried, 'go
  on.'" <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Amboy Times</title> (IL), 24 July 1856, 2:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-18'>Friday, July 18, 1856.</date>
            <place key='41.7833, -89.6833' teiForm='name'>Sterling, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks at another Fremont and Bissell meeting. "A grand 
rally," Chicago Democratic Press (July 17, 1856, July 19, 1856) 
characterizes it. Lincoln speaks here for old time's sake. Robert L. 
Wilson, one of the Long Nine, invited him.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans, 1908, 323-26.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-07-19'>Saturday, July 19, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In the evening, Lincoln is in
  Chicago's Dearborn Park, where he delivers a speech. Partisan newspapers differ
  on Lincoln's effectiveness. A Democratic paper reports, "Lincoln's speech was
  the same old sterotyped one he got up some time since, about tearing down the
  fence and letting in the cows, &amp;c., &amp;c. To those who have heard it
  before, it was very dry and prosy, and with those who have not heard it, it
  made no impression whatever." A Republican paper notes, "The speaker was calm,
  clear and forcible...He demonstrated in the strongest manner, that the only
  issue now before us, is freedom or slavery, that the perpetuity of our
  institutions is dependent upon maintaining the former against the aggressions
  of the latter." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Daily Illinois State Register</title>
  (Springfield), 24 July 1856, 2:3; <title>The Daily Democratic Press</title>
  (Chicago, IL), 21 July 1856, 3:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Another Democratic reporter
  declares crowd so small that Lincoln begins by saying he is not accustomed to
  "addressing such small gatherings." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Chicago Times</title>, 22
  July 1856;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A376' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Chicago, Illinois</xref>, 19 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:348-49.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-22'>Tuesday, July 22, 1856.</date>
            <place key='42.4167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Galena, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On or about this day Lincoln drafts several pages of campaign argument.
<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%3A377' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fragment on Sectionalism</xref>, [c. 23 July 1856], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:349-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[In Metamora, Lincoln's bill in <name type='case' key='L01173'>Saltonstall v. Saltonstall et al.</name> is filed. He is for complainant, John T. Saltonstall.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln has written National Kansas Committee declining to accept 
appointment as member because of other engagements. Convening at 
Buffalo July 9, 1856 and July 10, 1856, Lincoln was chosen, and 
notified July 16, 1856 by letter from William F. Arny, Chicago. On 
July 22, 1856 Arny writes Jesse Fell of Normal that Lincoln declines 
and recommends Fell.
<bibl default='NO'>W. F. Arny to Lincoln, 16 July 1856, Jesse Fell Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Arny to Fell, 22 July 1856, Jesse Fell Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-23'>Wednesday, July 23, 1856.</date>
            <place key='42.4167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Galena, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln addresses evening political meeting, speaking from balcony of 
DeSoto House. "His speech was almost wholly argumentative," said 
North-Western Gazette (July 25, 1856). "In a clear, connected and 
masterly manner he traced the history of slavery aggression . . . and 
pointed out, like a true statesman, the consequence of permitting the 
curse to spread itself over our immense territories." During day 
Lincoln writes editorial replying to one he read yesterday in 
Galena's Democratic paper which alleges that unnaturalized foreigners 
cannot legally vote in presidential elections. "This is a grave 
error," he answers. Lincoln hands his sheet to H. H. Houghton, editor 
of Galena Weekly North-Western Gazette, who prints it anonymously 
July 29, 1856.
<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%3A378' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Galena, Illinois</xref>, 23 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:353-55; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A379' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Editorial on the Right of Foreigners to Vote</xref>, 23 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:355-56.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-07-25'>Friday, July
  25, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='42.0000, -89.3167' teiForm='name'>Oregon, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln addresses
  "monster meeting." <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Democrat, 2 August 1856.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-26'>Saturday, July 26, 1856.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns home.
<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%3A381' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to B. Clarke Lundy and Others</xref>, 28 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:356-57.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes H. P. Merriman, client, requesting legally correct description of lands at issue in <name type='case' key='L02244'>Freeman &amp; Bright v. Merriman</name>, for which he filed papers in U.S. Circuit Court June 7, 1856.
<bibl default='NO'>File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-07-28'>Monday, July 28, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Artemas Hale, Massachusetts Whig, his opinion of 
Fremont's prospects in Illinois and Indiana. Opposition to Buchanan 
is undoubtedly in majority in both states, but division between 
Fremont and Fillmore "places both states in some danger." He thinks 
danger greater in Illinois than Indiana, and hopes some way may be 
found of inducing Fillmore men not to throw away their votes. He 
tells B. Clarke Lundy of Putnam County that prior engagement prevents 
acceptance of speaking invitation.
<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%3A380' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Artemas Hale</xref>, 28 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:356; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A381' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to B. Clarke Lundy and Others</xref>, 28 July 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:356-57.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>