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<date value='1858-02-18'>Thursday, February 18, 1858.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Lincoln talks politics with Norman B. Judd, who has just returned
from Washington. "He says Douglas is dead—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>
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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>
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