<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-01'>Friday, October 1, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.6000, -90.8000' teiForm='name'>Pittsfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In afternoon Lincoln is driven in wagon drawn by six black horses 
from Ross home to town square, where he speaks for two hours.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Statement of W. C. Dickson, 5 August 1928, Ms.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After meeting, Calvin Jackson, photographer, makes two ambrotypes of him.
<bibl default='NO'>Frederick H. Meserve, <title>The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: privately printed, 1911), 46.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tradition has it that Lincoln and J. K. Moore start for Naples, and 
spend night at home of Aaron Tyler.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Letter of E. S. Hoyt, 3 March 1929.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-02'>Saturday, October 2, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.7500, -90.6000' teiForm='name'>Naples, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>?
</dateline>
         <p>
[If Lincoln goes to Naples today it is doubtless to take packet north 
for speaking appointments. He could have gone from Naples to Peoria 
by boat in 18 hours.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Letters of E. S. Hoyt, 11 August 1928, 3 March 1929.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-04'>Monday, October 4, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place> and <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks at Metamora. He also apparently discusses with state's 
attorney case against bondsman of Melissa Goings, defendant who 
disappeared during her trial October 10, 1857. Case is dismissed next 
day on state's attorney's motion.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 2 September 1858; Diary of John Gipps, Peoria, Ms.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln stays night at Peoria House.
<bibl default='NO'>Peoria House Register; ISLA&#8212;Letter of P. G. Rennick, 14 October 1933.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-05'>Tuesday, October 5, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place> and <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Kellogg leave Peoria on steamer Nile at 10 A.M. and 
arrive at Pekin at 11. Procession escorts them to residence of J. 
Wagonseller. In afternoon Lincoln is escorted to town square. 
Introduced by Judge Bush, he speaks most of afternoon. Kellogg speaks 
in evening while Lincoln travels. He returns to Peoria on steamer 
Minnesota, which stopped at Pekin so Capt. Detweiller and crew could 
hear speech. Learning that Lincoln is bound for Peoria, captain 
insists on taking him. "The steamer had no sooner left the dock than 
Lincoln was up on the hurricane deck with him, where they had a long 
and pleasant chat all the way to Peoria." At Peoria House Lincoln is 
serenaded by Sushisky's Apollo Band.
<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Transcript, 6 October 1858, 20; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A29' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Pekin, Illinois</xref>, 5 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:206-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-06'>Wednesday, October 6, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place> and <place key='40.9333, -90.3667' teiForm='name'>Galesburg, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the evening, Lincoln travels by train from Peoria to Galesburg for a scheduled debate
    against Stephen A. Douglas the following day. A fellow passenger on the train notes that
    Lincoln, toting a carpetbag, is clad in "a big gray shawl, and a somewhat rusty stovepipe hat." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>The Metamora Herald</title> (IL), 21 August 1931, 9:1-2.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-07'>Thursday, October 7, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.9333, -90.3667' teiForm='name'>Galesburg, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arrives around noon for his fifth debate with Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas. He
    proceeds to Henry R. Sanderson's home, where attorney Thomas Gold Frost delivers a speech
    welcoming Lincoln to Galesburg. Miss Anna Hurd presents Lincoln with a banner "prepared by the
    ladies of Galesburg" to commemorate his visit. At two o'clock in the afternoon, "the military
    and a large body of citizens on horseback and on foot" escort Lincoln and Douglas, riding
    separately in "two four horse carriages driven abreast," to the Knox College campus, the site of
    the debate. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Galesburg Semi-Weekly Democrat</title> (IL), 9 October 1858, 2:1-2;
      <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A30' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fifth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Galesburg, Illinois</xref>, 7 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:207-44.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-08'>Friday, October 8, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.0833, -89.8500' teiForm='name'>Toulon, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegation headed by T. J. Henderson meets Lincoln, coming from 
Kewanee, and escorts him to Virginia Hotel. In afternoon he speaks in 
town square, and returns to Kewanee.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Statement of Samuel M. Adams, 4 August 1927.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-09'>Saturday, October 9, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.9167, -90.9333' teiForm='name'>Oquawka, IL</place> and <place key='42.0500, -88.5333' teiForm='name'>Burlington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Escort with brass band meets Lincoln at Oquawka Junction (now 
Gladstone) and takes him to home of S. S. Phelps. At 1 P.M. he is 
escorted to stand in business section, where he speaks for hours. 
After meeting he leaves for Burlington, Iowa, for evening speech at 
Grimes' Hall.
<bibl default='NO'>Oquawka Spectator, 4 October 1858; Burlington Hawkeye, 11 October 1858; J. W. Grimes to Herndon, 28 October 1866, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-10'>Sunday, October 10, 1858.</date>
            <place key='42.0500, -88.5333' teiForm='name'>Burlington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln spends Sunday at home of James W. Grimes. In afternoon he 
borrows writing materials and spends hour and a half outlining his 
Quincy speech.
<bibl default='NO'>Oquawka Spectator, 4 October 1858; Burlington Hawkeye, 11 October 1858; Statement of W. J. McSurly, in Presbyterian Advance, 24 January 1929, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-10-11'>Monday, October 11, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='40.9000, -90.6333' teiForm='name'>Monmouth, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>Lincoln arrives in the morning by a
  "train from the west." A group of about two hundred people plan to meet Lincoln
  "on the Oquawka Road," but rain curtails "arrangements for a grand display" to
  welcome him prior to his scheduled speech. "[T]wo or three Republican friends"
  escort Lincoln to the Baldwin House, where a local newspaper reports that he is
  "received in silence." At approximately one in the afternoon, an audience makes
  its way to "Henry's board yard," the setting for the speech. A newspaper
  reports that there are "as many as the Douglasites had last week, and that they
  were mostly voters, while full half of theirs were women and children." Dr.
  A.V.T. Gilbert, a former state representative, delivers a speech prior to
  Lincoln's oration. The Monmouth Republican Glee Club performs a song, and Philo
  E. Reed, "a very modest, unassuming young man," introduces Lincoln, who speaks
  for "three hours." The Democratic and Republican newspapers differ in their
  accounts as to the effectiveness of Lincoln's remarks. The local Democratic
  newspaper describes Lincoln's speech as "a personal attack on Douglas and
  Democrats." It accuses Lincoln of "dodg[ing] the issues before the people." A
  Republican newspaper in Chicago reports his remarks as "elaborate, full and
  perfect." This account also describes the audience as "perfectly wrapt in
  attention," while the local Democratic newspaper reports that Lincoln "was
  coldly received by the small crowd present." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>The Monmouth
  Review</title> (IL), 15 October 1858, 2:2-3; <title>Chicago Daily Press and
  Tribune</title> (IL), 15 October 1858, 2:2; <title>Journal of the House of
  Representatives of the Twentieth General Assembly of the State of
  Illinois</title> (Springfield: Lanphier &amp; Walker, 1857), 4;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A31' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Monmouth, Illinois</xref>, 11 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:244-45.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-12'>Tuesday, October 12, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.4500, -90.6667' teiForm='name'>Macomb, IL</place>?
</dateline>
         <p>
[Lincoln's name and that of C. R. Hume, candidate for legislature, 
appear in Randolph Hotel room book under date of October 13, 1858. 
Probably they spend night.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1858-10-13'>Wednesday, October 13, 1858.</date> 
  <place key='39.9333, -91.4000' teiForm='name'>Quincy, IL</place>. </dateline> 
  <p> Sixth joint debate takes place. Lincoln arrived on morning train from
  Macomb. Crowd meets him at depot and escorts him to residence of O. H.
  Browning. Debate occupies afternoon. Republicans end day with "splendid
  torchlight procession." <bibl default='NO'> <title>Illinois State
  Journal</title>, 16 October 1858;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A32' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Sixth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at
  Quincy, Illinois</xref>, 13 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:245-83.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-14'>Thursday, October 14, 1858.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> from <place key='39.9333, -91.4000' teiForm='name'>Quincy, IL</place> to <place key='38.8833, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>Alton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Douglas take passage on steamer City of Louisiana, 
reaching Alton at dawn next morning.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 18 October 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-15'>Friday, October 15, 1858.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>Alton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Seventh joint debate takes place. Steamer White Cloud brings up 
several hundred from St. Louis, and many come from Springfield and 
Carlinville on special train. Among them is <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, who stays 
with Lincoln at Franklin House. Debate takes place in afternoon at 
south front of City Hall.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 18 October 1858; T. J. McCormack, ed., <title>Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896</title>, 2 vols. (Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1909), 2:66; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A33' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois</xref>, 15 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:283-325.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-10-16'>Saturday, October 16,
  1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln travels by train to Lincoln, Illinois, to deliver a
  speech. A newspaper reports that the train's cars "were completely filled
  inside, and covered with passengers on top, before reaching Lincoln." Lincoln
  arrives at about noon and "partak[es] of some refreshments" before being
  introduced by local attorney Samuel C. Parks. At approximately two o'clock,
  Lincoln begins a two-hour speech. He delivers the remarks from "the stand,
  erected near the west front of the Court House" before a crowd of approximately
  5,000 people. A newspaper reported that "Mr. Lincoln made an eloquent speech,
  and showed up Douglas' inconsistencies in fine style." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>The Daily
  Pantagraph</title> (Bloomington, IL), 18 October 1858, 2:2; <title>Daily
  Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 18 October 1858, 2:3;
  <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 21 October 1858,
  2:3.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases nine pounds of sugar
  and five pounds of "Java" coffee from the John Williams &amp; Co. store and
  charges the total cost of two dollars to Lincoln's account. <bibl default='NO'>Harry E.
  Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>The Personal Finances of Abraham
  Lincoln</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943),
  145-49.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-17'>Sunday, October 17, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Lincoln's presence at home is obvious inference from his speech in 
Lincoln yesterday and departure by train for Naples tomorrow morning.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-18'>Monday, October 18, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>, <place key='39.7500, -90.6000' teiForm='name'>Naples, IL</place>, and <place key='39.8167, -90.5500' teiForm='name'>Meredosia, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Before resuming his travels, Lincoln writes to James N. Brown, 
Sangamon County politician, explaining his position on race question. 
Alighting from train at Naples, he meets "about fifteen Celtic 
gentlemen, with black carpet-sacks in their hands." This worries him. 
He fears Democrats may secure enough fraudulent votes to carry 
doubtful districts. He inquires where they are going, but can learn 
nothing definite. He speaks at Naples in afternoon, and at nearby 
Meredosia after dark, remarking about Irishmen probably imported to 
vote against him.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A36' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James N. Brown</xref>, 18 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:327-28; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A37' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Meredosia, Illinois</xref>, 18 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:328-29.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-19'>Tuesday, October 19, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.9833, -90.7500' teiForm='name'>Mount Sterling, IL</place> and <place key='40.1167, -90.5500' teiForm='name'>Rushville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Arriving for speech, Lincoln hears another rumor which worries him, 
that 400 Irish are to be brought into Schuyler County to work on some 
new railroad and to be voted Democratic.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A39' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Norman B. Judd</xref>, 20 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:329-30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After speech he travels across country to Rushville in buggy driven 
by Charles H. Sweeney, law student.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1903, 229-30; ISLA&#8212;Letter of S. B. Gaddis, 29 July 1959.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-10-20'>Wednesday, October
  20, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='40.1167, -90.5500' teiForm='name'>Rushville, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>A large crowd
  gathers in the public square to hear Lincoln speak. One newspaper reports that
  the procession of attendees entering the square measures approximately "one
  mile and a half long--double the length of any other procession ever seen in
  Rushville." Before delivering his remarks, Lincoln stops at the home of local
  businessman William H. Ray, and his "hospitable mansion...is thronged with the
  old friends and admirers of Mr. Lincoln." Lincoln begins speaking at two in the
  afternoon to an audience of between 2,000 and 3,000, "among whom was a large
  number of ladies." Lincoln states his views on slavery, and he defends his
  "House Divided" speech against Stephen A. Douglas's criticism. A couple of
  "disturbances" slightly mar Lincoln's speech. Some suspect that the Democratic
  party is behind the appearance of "a <ital>black flag</ital>...found fluttering
  from the top of the Court house steeple!" A newspaper reports that the incident
  is "a public insult offered to the Republicans of Schuyler County." During his
  speech, some "foolish boys" as well as "Several <ital>females</ital>" heckle
  Lincoln to the point that he is "<ital>compelled to stop in the midst of his
  speech and request them to be still.</ital>" In spite of the problems, however,
  the paper adds that "the day passed off very pleasantly and successfully." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A38' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Rushville, Illinois</xref>, 20 October 1858, <title>CW</title>, 3:329;
  <title>The Schuyler Citizen</title> (Rushville, IL), 27 October 1858, 2:1-4;
  <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 23 October 1858, 2:2;
  Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., <title>Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
  and History of Schuyler County</title> (Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1908),
  442-43.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes a letter to Norman B. Judd, a member of
  the Illinois State Senate from Chicago. He seeks Judd's advice on how to
  prevent "fraudulent votes" in the upcoming election. Lincoln fears that the
  opposition "will introduce into the doubtful districts numbers of men who are
  legal voters in all respects except <uLine>residence</uLine> and who will swear
  to residence and thus put it beyond our power to exclude them." Lincoln
  suspects that the "fifteen Celtic gentlemen, with black carpet-sacks in their
  hands" whom he recently encountered in Naples were there for that purpose. He
  also relays to Judd that he heard that "about four hundred of the same sort
  were to be brought into Schuyler [County], before the election, to work on some
  new Railroad." Lincoln explains that he checked with a source in Schuyler who
  "thinks that is not so." Lincoln suggests to Judd that perhaps someone could
  infiltrate the ranks of the suspect voters, someone "in disguise, who could, at
  the nick of time, control their votes." Lincoln concludes, "If we can head off
  the fraudulent votes we shall carry the day." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Biographical
  Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949</title> (Washington, D.C.: United
  States Government Printing Office, 1950), 1391;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A39' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Norman B. Judd</xref>, 20 October 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:329-30.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-22'>Friday, October 22, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.4000, -91.1333' teiForm='name'>Carthage, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks before large crowd. Some 2,000 ladies are in 
procession which passes house where he is staying. "Mr. Lincoln was 
in admirable spirits and voice," writes Chicago "Tribune" 
correspondent, "and gave us the best speech ever made in Hancock 
County."
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 26 October 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A40' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Carthage, Illinois</xref>, 22 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:330-31.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Lincoln's buggy, little used by him this fall, is fitted with new 
doubletree, plus stay and bolt repairs ($1.75).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-10-23'>Saturday, October 23, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='40.4667, -90.9667' teiForm='name'>Fountain
  Green, IL</place>, <place key='40.6333, -91.1667' teiForm='name'>Dallas City, IL</place>, and <place key='40.5833, -90.9667' teiForm='name'>La Harpe,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln visits relatives, speaks at Dallas City in
  afternoon, where steamboats from Oquawka and Fort Madison, Iowa bring
  delegations to swell crowd, and delivers evening speech at La Harpe Methodist
  Church. <bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Statements of W. E. Barton, 24 November 1926, Jacob
  Thompson, 12 November 1926, Jonathan Smith, 16 March 1858, 20 March 1929;
  Oquawka Spectator, 28 October 1858.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-24'>Sunday, October 24, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.5500, -90.8500' teiForm='name'>Blandinsville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes letters. To John Moses he says: "Throw on all your 
weight. Some things I have heard make me think your case is not so 
desperate as you thought when I was in Winchester. Put in your best 
licks." He cautions Alexander Sympson to beware of deal between 
Douglas and Buchanan Democrats in Hancock County. He reports to Judd 
on prospects in Hancock, where he spoke three times: 
"<uLine>Tight,</uLine> with chances slightly in our favor."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A42' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Moses</xref>, 24 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:332; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A43' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Sympson</xref>, 24 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:332; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A41' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Norman B. Judd</xref>, 24 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:332.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-25'>Monday, October 25, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.4500, -90.6667' teiForm='name'>Macomb, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arrives at about noon, and a cheering crowd accompanies him to the Randolph House, a
    hotel owned by William Harrison Randolph, a local businessman and a former state legislator. At
    two o'clock, on the courthouse square, Lincoln speaks before a crowd of more than four thousand
    people, "who stood there in the mud, and fog, and drizzle through his whole speech."
      <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 28 October 1858, 2:4; <title>Quincy
      Daily Whig and Republican</title> (IL), 27 October 1858, 2:1; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A44' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Macomb, Illinois</xref>, 25 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:333.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-26'>Tuesday, October 26, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.4500, -90.6667' teiForm='name'>Macomb, IL</place> and <place key='40.2833, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Vermont, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
During part of day Lincoln rests at Randolph House. Bill for his 
room, $2.50, is charged to Lincoln Club. Later Col. Hamer drives him 
to Vermont.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;<title>Randolph House room book</title>; Statement of Jacob Thompson, 12 November 1926.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-27'>Wednesday, October 27, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.2833, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Vermont, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln makes speech in rain, standing under umbrella, to crowd of 
"more than one thousand."
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;J. W. Procter, to J. R. B. Van Cleave, Van Cleave Mss.; <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 2 November 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-28'>Thursday, October 28, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln makes hurried visit. "Mr. Lincoln was at the Tremont House a 
few moments . . . on his way to speak at Petersburg," reports Chicago 
Democrat.
<bibl default='NO'>Edwin E. Sparks, ed., <title>The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858</title> (Springfield, IL: 1908), 529.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-29'>Friday, October 29, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks to "large and enthusiastic assembly." Later, at flag 
station 20 miles west of Springfield, he and Henry Villard, reporter, 
take refuge from storm in box car. Lincoln tells Villard that as 
youth his highest political ambition was to be elected to 
legislature. Now his wife insists he will be senator and President 
too. "Just think of such a sucker as me as President!"
<bibl default='NO'>Henry Villard, <title>Memoirs of Henry Villard</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:96; <title>Menard Index</title>, 4 November 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A45' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Petersburg, Illinois</xref>, 29 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:333.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-10-30'>Saturday, October 30, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>Supporters host a "grand reception" for Lincoln who has spent much of the month of October
    away from his hometown. One reporter claims that "never since Sangamon has been a county or
    Illinois a State, has the centre seen such an outpouring of the people to do a citizen honor.
    Never, never!" Supporters from Jacksonville and Decatur attend the rally, and participants from
    Logan and McLean counties, filling up thirty-two train cars, are in Springfield as well. The
    crowd is "so righteously enthusiastic" that "Speaking was out of the question. Lincoln tried it,
    and though he held at all times an audience of five thousand or more, something more
    demonstrative than his convincing and unimpassioned oratory was needed to satisfy the eager
    crowd." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 2 November 1858, 1:3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In a letter to Edward Lusk of Meredosia, Lincoln denies that he has ever been a member of the
    Know-Nothing party. Lincoln writes, "I stated in a public speech at Meredosia, that I am not,
    nor ever have been, connected with the party called the Know-Nothing party, or party calling
    themselves the American 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=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A46' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Lusk</xref>, 30 October 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:333.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>