<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-01'>Monday, September 1, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Logan Circuit Court convenes at Lincoln. Lincoln &amp; Herndon, 
although docket does not show on which days, appear for plaintiff in 
three cases and for defendant in one.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-02'>Tuesday, September 2, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Republican meeting, attended by large delegation from Atlanta, is 
held during evening. "Mr. Lincoln made a speech most triumphantly 
vindicating the nationality [patriotism] of the supporters of Col. 
Fremont."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 4 September 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln has new shaft bar put on his buggy ($1.75).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-03'>Wednesday, September 3, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> charges bonnet, ribbon, silk, shoes, slippers, and 
combs to her husband's account ($8.77) at John Williams &amp; Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 148.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-04'>Thursday, September 4, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.2500, -89.2333' teiForm='name'>Atlanta, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In the evening, Lincoln appears at a political event, and addresses "a very large and
    enthusiastic crowd." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 5 September 1856, 3:1.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-06'>Saturday, September 6, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Afternoon Fremont mass meeting is held in courthouse yard at 
Jacksonville. Lincoln, first speaker, appeals to antislavery 
Democrats not to vote for Buchanan. At four o'clock Springfield 
delegation leaves to attend Kansas meeting that evening at 
Springfield. After addresses by Lincoln, Conkling, and Robbins, 
meeting adjourns until night of 8th.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 8 September 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%3A393' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Jacksonville, Illinois</xref>, 6 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:368-73.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-09-07'>Sunday, September 7, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes J. B. McFarland of Lafayette,
  Indiana, declining invitation to speak at Tippecanoe battleground October 1,
  1856 October 2, 1856 October 3, 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%3A394' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to J. B. McFarland</xref>, 7 September 1856,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:373.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-08'>Monday, September 8, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln completes form letter telling Fillmore men that every vote 
for Fillmore helps elect Buchanan. This is lithographed to simulate 
personal letter from Lincoln, dated, signed, marked "Confidential," 
and mailed for next eight 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%3A395' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Form Letter to Fillmore Men</xref>, 8 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:374-75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Fremont supporters again assemble at courthouse. Lincoln, Francis, 
John B. Weber, Cullom, and others speak. "There was manifested by the 
meeting a general and very decided feeling of indignation against the 
recently reported outrages in Kansas Territory, and against the 
Administration for aiding and abetting them."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 9 September 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-09'>Tuesday, September 9, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In McLean Circuit Court, which convened on 8th, Lincoln appears in <name type='case' key='L01628'>Bishop v. Illinois Central RR</name>, continued from spring term. Court orders case dismissed at defendant's costs. Lincoln represents company.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-10'>Wednesday, September 10, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files affidavit of Eli Crothers in <name type='case' key='L01566'>Fleming v. Rogers &amp; Crothers</name> He moves for continuance, which is granted at defendants' costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-11'>Thursday, September 11, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes praecipe and notice for Clarissa Bishop Cheney in <name type='case' key='L00533'>Cheney et ux. v. Ross et ux.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-12'>Friday, September 12, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01678'>Pike v. Shaffer</name>, Lincoln for plaintiff, is continued at plaintiff's costs. <name type='case' key='L01681'>Reynolds &amp; Fuller v. Steele et al.</name>, trespass, is tried by jury. Lincoln, for defense, gets acquittals for Steele and Price, while Platt and Davidson are found guilty and assessed $600 damages.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and T. Lyle Dickey address Republican meeting in Major's 
Hall. Lincoln speaks with "great eloquence and power. He showed up 
the position of the Fillmore party in fine style, both as to its 
prospects of success, and as to the propriety of supporting a 
candidate whose greatest recommendation . . . is that he is 
<uLine>neutral</uLine> upon the one only great political question of 
the times."
<bibl default='NO'>Bloomington Pantagraph, 17 September 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%3A396' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 12 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:375; Sherman D. Wakefield, <title>How Lincoln Became President: The Part Played by Bloomington, Illinois, and Certain of Its Citizens in Preparing Him for the Presidency and Securing his Nomination and Election</title> (New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936), 71-72.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-09-13'>Saturday,
  September 13, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to Charles H. Ray, editor
  of the <name>Chicago Daily Tribune</name>, about some German-language
  newspapers. Lincoln had asked Chicago attorney Grant Goodrich to "have a
  hundred german papers sent...in one bundle" to Bloomington attorney William H.
  Hanna. Lincoln also writes that he had asked Ray to "have fifty sent to Jabez
  Capps," a Mount Pulaski merchant. Lincoln is checking on the status of his
  requests because Hanna has not yet received the papers, and as for the papers
  destined for Capps, Lincoln writes, "Whether they are coming I dont know."
  Apparently, Lincoln hopes to win over German voters to the Republican party,
  and he writes, "Last evening I was scared a little by being told that the enemy
  are getting the german's away from us at Chicago. Is there any truth in that?" 
  <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles H. Ray, 13 September 1856, Chicago History
  Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-14'>Sunday, September 14, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Robert Boal, promising to be at Lacon September 30, 
1856 if possible. He also urges Frederick Hecker, exiled German 
revolutionist of St. Clair County, to speak in Springfield on 25th, 
"when we expect to have a large mass-meeting." He declines invitation 
to speak in Iowa on 23rd. Iowa is safe, but in Illinois "much hard 
work is still to be done."
<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%3A397' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert S. Boal</xref>, 14 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:375; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A398' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Friedrich K. F. Hecker</xref>, 14 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:376; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A399' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry O'Conner</xref>, 14 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:376.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-09-15'>Monday,
  September 15, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to Jesse A. Pickrell of
  Sangamon County, and asks for "a list of fifteen or twenty names of good,
  steady Fillmore men, round about you." Lincoln is referring to Millard
  Fillmore, the American (Know-Nothing) Party candidate for president. Lincoln
  seeks the names of Fillmore supporters to whom he can send letters in an
  attempt to garner votes for John C. Fremont, the Republican presidential
  candidate. In addition to Fremont and Fillmore, James Buchanan is the
  Democratic party's nominee in the three-way presidential election of 1856. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse A. Pickrell, 15 September 1856, University of
  Illinois Library, Lincoln Room, Urbana, IL; Thomas F. Schwartz, "Lincoln, Form
  Letters, and Fillmore Men," <title>Illinois Historical Journal</title> 78
  (Spring 1985): 65-70.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-09-16'>Tuesday, September 16, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Democrats hold large rally.
  During afternoon Lincoln and Swett attend meeting. In evening, while Democratic
  speakers are holding forth at Pike House, Lincoln speaks at Major's Hall. "A
  most masterly speech, in which he tore the day-time speeches of the Bucks at
  their great meeting into ribbons," Bloomington Pantagraph (24 September 1856)
  reports. </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-17'>Wednesday, September 17, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
All-day Fremont rally is held. In morning crowd assembles in grove 
east of Urbana and hears speeches by Herndon, Lovejoy, Scott, and 
Norton. "A most sumptuous repast was then served up by the ladies of 
Urbana, after which the people again assembled at different stands." 
Lincoln and Fithian speak from one stand, Wilson (of Indiana) and 
Bross from other.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Democratic Press, 22 September 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-18'>Thursday, September 18, 1856.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Traveling through Vandalia toward points south, Lincoln pauses 
briefly to observe Democratic meeting on square. Lincoln notes what 
speaker, his old friend "Long Jim Davis" says, and thinks up replies 
for his own use on 23d, at Republican rally.
<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%3A402' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Vandalia, Illinois</xref>, 23 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:377-78.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-19'>Friday, September 19, 1856.</date>
            <place key='38.7167, -87.6667' teiForm='name'>Lawrenceville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has promised to speak today if he can possibly get there, and 
doubtless does since he speaks at Olney next day.
<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%3A389' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois</xref>, 19 August 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:360; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A401' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Olney, Illinois</xref>, 20 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:376.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-20'>Saturday, September 20, 1856.</date>
            <place key='38.7167, -88.0833' teiForm='name'>Olney, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, Douglas, and others appear at rally. According to Democratic 
reporter, Lincoln's crowd is so small he soon gives up.
<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%3A401' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Olney, Illinois</xref>, 20 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:376.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-21'>Sunday, September 21, 1856.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"I saw the 'four' [Trumbull, Douglas, Lincoln, Ebenezer Peck] on the 
cars next day," writes "Q", Olney correspondent who reported 
Saturday's meeting, "seated <uLine>vis a vis</uLine>, speaking of the 
things of Saturday in no uncomplimentary manner."
<bibl default='NO'>Missouri Republican, 24 September 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-23'>Tuesday, September 23, 1856.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Fremont meeting is held at old State House. Speaking starts at one 
o'clock. Lincoln, who arrives after meeting has opened, is second 
speaker. "He demonstrated that the Republicans are walking in the 
'old paths'&#8212;read the recorded sentiments of Washington, 
Jefferson and others, and dwelt at length upon the position of Henry 
Clay, (now quoted against him,) the Nestor of the old Whig party."
<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%3A402' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Vandalia, Illinois</xref>, 23 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:377-78.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[At Taylorville, Christian County Commissioner's Court orders Lincoln paid $50 fee in <name type='case' key='L00579'>Overholt &amp; Squier v. Christian County, Illinois</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1856-09-24'>Wednesday, September 24, 1856.</date> 
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Republicans meet during morning in
  grove near town. Bross of Chicago "Democratic Press," J. C. Vaughn, and John
  Wentworth speak before dinner, and afterward Trumbull takes stand. "We were
  compelled to leave him speaking in order to mail this letter. He was to be
  followed by Mr. Lincoln." <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Democratic Press, 27 September
  1856.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln's speech is exhortation to Fillmore men. This
  concludes outdoor meeting. At candlelight at courthouse Republicans hear
  Lawrence Weldon of Clinton, recent convert, and Owen Lovejoy. While he speaks,
  Democrats throw eggs through windows. <bibl default='NO'>Illinois State Chronicle, 2 October
  1856.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-25'>Thursday, September 25, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning delegates to Bloomington convention, Lincoln among them, 
meet at state house and nominate John Wood for lieutenant governor. 
In afternoon thousands gather in grove west of town and listen to 
several speakers. At night state house is crowded. Lincoln makes 
first speech. "Never was he so powerful, so strong in argument, so 
convincing in logic." Wentworth and Edwards follow.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 26 September 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-27'>Saturday, September 27, 1856.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers letter from J. M. Sturtevant, President of Illinois 
College, urging him to become candidate for Congress. "Let me assure 
you," he says, "that I decline to be a candidate for congress, on my 
clear conviction, that my running would <uLine>hurt</uLine>, &amp; 
not <uLine>help</uLine> the cause. I am willing to make any personal 
sacrafice, but I am not willing to do, what in my own judgment, is, a 
sacrafice of the cause itself."
<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%3A403' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Julian M. Sturtevant</xref>, 27 September 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:378-79.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-28'>Sunday, September 28, 1856.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> and <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln reaches Peoria on his way to Lacon rally.
<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Weekly Republican, 3 October 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-29'>Monday, September 29, 1856.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place> and <place key='41.0167, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Lacon, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln boards 11 A.M. train for Lacon.
<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Weekly Republican, 3 October 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1856-09-30'>Tuesday, September 30, 1856.</date>
            <place key='41.0167, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Lacon, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy address meeting of Marshall County 
Republicans. Crowd, estimated at 2,000, includes delegation of 
several hundred from Henry who made trip in 64 wagons headed by Henry 
Brass Band.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry (Ill.) Courier, in <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 6 
October 1856.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>