<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-01'>Monday, February 1, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has two cases in Supreme Court: <name type='case' key='L00709'>Laughlin v. Marshall</name>, and <name type='case' key='L00708'>Illinois Central RR v. Morrison &amp; Crabtree</name>. First case, which involved two certificates of deposit totalling $1,000, he argues on behalf of Marshall. (Court affirms decision of trial court.) In second case, in which Lincoln and Ficklin appear for railroad, Ficklin makes opening argument.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 19 Ill. 390.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-02'>Tuesday, February 2, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Ficklin continues his argument in <name type='case' key='L00708'>Illinois Central RR v. Morrison &amp; Crabtree</name>; Green and Constable follow for appellees, and Lincoln concludes for appellants. Case involved right of railroad to restrict its liabiity as common carrier. Supreme Court reverses decision of lower court.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 19 Ill. 136.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04112'>People ex rel. Lanphier &amp; Walker v. Hatch</name> is argued. Lincoln appears for Hatch.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-02-03'>Wednesday, February 3, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loses case in Supreme
  Court when motion for mandamus in <name type='case' key='L02471'>People ex rel.
  Billings v. Bissell</name> is refused. Case involved famous McAllister &amp;
  Stebbins bonds, relator trying to compel governor to issue new bonds covering
  arrears of interest. <bibl default='NO'>Record; 19 Ill. 229.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit
  Court Lincoln argues demurrer in <name type='case'>Gilbert v. Rose et
  al.</name> 
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Herndon writes Senator Trumbull that
  he and Lincoln are certain Supreme Court will uphold Gov. Bissell in political
  reapportionment case. <bibl default='NO'>Lyman Trumbull Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-02-04'>Thursday, February 4,
  1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the Illinois
  Supreme Court, the litigants' attorneys begin to argue the appeal case of 
  <name type='case' key='L02489'>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et al.</name>, a
  suit that originated in the Cass County Circuit Court. Lincoln &amp; Herndon,
  and Henry E. Dummer represent Charles Sprague; David A. Smith and Stephen T.
  Logan are the attorneys for the railroad. Sprague seeks an injunction to
  prevent Cass County from paying the Illinois River Railroad $50,000 in stock
  subscriptions approved by the voters. <bibl default='NO'>Order, 4 February 1858,
  <title>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et al.</title>, Illinois Supreme Court,
  Journal Record SC 2nd GD 1855-1864, 149, Illinois State Archives, Springfield,
  IL; Writ of Injunction, 6 August 1857, <title>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et
  al.</title>, Cass County Circuit Court, box 11, Cass County Courthouse,
  Virginia, IL; <title>Sprague v. Illinois River Railroad et al.</title>, 19 Ill.
  (1857) 174-83.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-05'>Friday, February 5, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Argument in <name type='case' key='L02489'>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et al.</name> is continued by Logan and concluded by Lincoln. Lincoln wins case when court reverses <name type='case' key='L04005'>McDaniel et al. v. Correll et al.</name>, which he tried twice in Sangamon Circuit Court. <name type='case' key='L02494'>Stark et al. v. Kester</name> is argued and taken under advisement, while <name type='case' key='L02798'>Brundage v. Camp</name>, in which Lincoln appears for Brundage, is reversed and remanded.
<bibl default='NO'>19 Ill. 226, 328; 21 Ill. 330.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In U.S. Circuit Court, Lincoln files power of attorney in <name type='case' key='L02175'>Millikin &amp; Martin v. Dean &amp; Dalby</name>, and confesses judgment for $3,842.71 and costs.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-06'>Saturday, February 6, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Court affirms decision of Cass Circuit Court in <name type='case' key='L02489'>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et al.</name> Six other cases in which Lincoln is concerned are before court, including two not in published reports: <name type='case'>Mary Ann Gray v. Matilda French et al.</name> and <name type='case' key='L00842'>James Welsh v. William P. Welsh et al.</name> This is last day of Supreme Court term.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-07'>Sunday, February 7, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gillespie again: "Yesterday morning the Court overruled the Demurrer to Hatch's Return in the Mandamus case [<name type='case' key='L04112'>People ex rel. Lanphier &amp; Walker, and Walker v. Hatch</name>] . . . so I suppose the matter is ended." He adds that court held that governor had right to scratch off his name as long as bill was in his custody. He also writes to two other lawyers reporting legal victories. He tells Gustave Koerner what judges 
"unanamously declared," privately, on reapportionment case, and informs Henry E. Dummer of success in <name type='case' key='L02489'>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et al.</name>
            <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%3A474' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 7 February 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:433; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A475' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gustave P. Koerner</xref>, 7 February 1857 [1858], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:433; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A473' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer</xref>, 7 February 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:432-33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the U. S. Circuit Court,
  Lincoln &amp; Logan represent the Morgan County Bank in the case of 
  <name type='case' key='L02145'>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</name>. The plaintiff
  Dewitt C. Gale asks the court to grant him a new trial. Gale is suing the bank
  for $10,000 in damages. He claims that the bank failed to credit his account
  with deposits he made totaling $4,000. On January 16, a jury found for the
  bank. Judge Samuel H. Treat advises the parties that he does not have
  sufficient information to rule on the request for a new trial, and that he will
  take "time to consider" the motion. Judge Treat then adjourns the court until
  the next morning. <bibl default='NO'>Order, 8 February 1858, <ital>Gale v. Morgan County
  Bank</ital>, Record Group 21, General Records, Vol. 1, 297; Narratio, filed 30
  May 1857, <ital>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</ital>, Record Group 21, case file
  142; Affidavit of Henry R. Read, 10 June 1857, <title>Gale v. Morgan County
  Bank</title>, Record Group 21, case file 142; Judgment, 16 January 1858,
  <ital>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</ital>, Record Group 21, Vol. 1, 253, all in
  U. S. Circuit Court, Southern District of Illinois, National Archives and
  Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-02-09'>Tuesday, February 9,
  1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In the U. S.
  Circuit Court, the defendant James A. Barret asks the court for a continuance
  in the case of <name type='case' key='L02143'>Emmitt v. Barret</name>, a
  dispute involving a promissory note. Elliott B. Herndon and John A. McClernand
  represent Barret, and Lincoln, Lucien B. Adams, Thomas H. Lewis, and William H.
  Herndon represent the plaintiff James Emmitt. The attorneys' arguments on the
  motion "occupied the time of the court until the hour of adjournment." Judge
  Samuel H. Treat orders "that the further argument be continued until tomorrow
  morning." <bibl default='NO'>Order, 9 February 1858, <ital>Emmitt v. Barret</ital>, Record
  Group 21, General Records, Vol. 1, 298; Declaration, filed 2 January 1858,
  <ital>Emmitt v. Barret</ital>, Record Group 21, case file 279, both in U.S.
  Circuit Court, Southern District of Illinois, National Archives and Records
  Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-10'>Wednesday, February 10, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon have four cases in U.S. Circuit Court. In <name type='case' key='L02143'>Emmitt v. Barret</name>, continued from yesterday, court grants continuance (see July 6, 1858). In <name type='case' key='L02164'>Lawrence v. Coler</name>, before court January 25, 1858, defendant defaults, and Lincoln &amp; Herndon take judgment for $1,716.72. Two cases are Davis &amp; Co. suits, which court refers to master in chancery.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-02-11'>Thursday, February 11, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In 
  <name type='case' key='L02268'>S. C. Davis &amp; Co. v. Campbell &amp;
  Hundley</name>, and <name type='case' key='L02273'>S. C. Davis &amp; Co. v.
  Kinney</name>, referred to master in chancery, master reports indebtedness of
  $1,077.50 and $1,044.73 respectively. Lincoln &amp; Herndon get court order for
  foreclosure and sale. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-14'>Sunday, February 14, 1858.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-15'>Monday, February 15, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Mr. Lincoln is now in Chicago," writes John O. Johnson of 
Springfield to Senator Trumbull, "left here yesterday and will return 
by Saturday next."
<bibl default='NO'>Lyman Trumbull Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[U.S. Circuit Court denies motion for new trial in <name type='case' key='L02145'>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-18'>Thursday, February 18, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln talks politics with Norman B. Judd, who has just returned 
from Washington. "He says Douglas is dead&#8212;feels bad, is gloomy, 
miserable, knows he is lost."
<bibl default='NO'>Joseph F. Newton, <title>Lincoln and Herndon</title> (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1910), 143.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Judd tells Lincoln that if he wants to be senator, he must personally 
canvass central Illinois.
<bibl default='NO'>Judd to Trumbull, 19 April 1858, Lyman Trumbull Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-19'>Friday, February 19, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Edward G. Miner recommending G. A. Sutton for 
superintendent of addition to Insane Asylum.
<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%3A476' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward G. Miner</xref>, 19 February 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:434.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He deposits $344.64 in his account at Springfield Marine &amp; Fire 
Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-23'>Tuesday, February 23, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In Henry B. Rankin's autograph book Lincoln writes: "Today, Feb. 23 
1858, the owner honored me with the privilege of writing the first 
name in this book." He also writes S. C. Davis &amp; Co., St. Louis 
wholesale merchants, explaining cases in U.S. Circuit Court.
<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%3A478' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Inscription in the Autograph Album of Henry B. Rankin</xref>, 23 February 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:435; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A477' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel C. Davis and Company</xref>, 23 February 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:434-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes $300 check payable to "Selves" on Lincoln &amp; 
Herndon's joint account at Springfield Marine &amp; Fire Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by Springfield Marine Bank.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-24'>Wednesday, February 24, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln pays $8.50 cash on his account at Lewis carriage shop.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1858-02-25'>Thursday, February 25, 1858.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline> <p>Lincoln responds to Mark Carley, who apparently asked
  Lincoln to speak to Illinois Governor William Henry Bissell about installing
  Carley as a county judge. In November 1857, Carley ran for the office of county
  judge in Champaign County amid questions about whether or not he met the
  minimum residency requirements. Lincoln writes that he spoke to Governor
  Bissell "to day." Lincoln explains, "[H]e thinks you had no legal residence in
  the precinct when you were elected; clearly you were not entitled to
  <uLine>vote</uLine> in the precinct, and therefore he thinks you could not be
  lawfully <uLine>voted</uLine> for in it." <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to
  Mark Carley, 25 February 1858, <title>CW</title>, 10:28; <title>Our
  Constitution</title> (Urbana, IL), 7 November 1857, 2:1-3.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-26'>Friday, February 26, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In U.S. Circuit Court case of <name type='case' key='L02120'>Cochran &amp; Hall v. Camp et al.</name>, Lincoln endorses plaintiffs' notice of application for dedimus: "We acknowledge service of the above on this 26 day of Feb. 1858 Lincoln &amp; Herndon for defts who have answered."
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-02-27'>Saturday, February 27, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
John O. Johnson visits office of Lincoln &amp; Herndon and they read 
letter Johnson has received from Senator Trumbull. Late in 1857 
Lincoln hired Johnson as political organizer.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon to Trumbull, Lyman Trumbull Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A464' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 18 December 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:428-29.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>