February 25, 1858

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            <date value='1858-02-25'>Thursday,
  February 25, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to Mark Carley in response
  to Carley's recent letter to Lincoln. Carley apparently asked Lincoln to speak
  to Illinois Governor William Henry Bissell about installing Carley as a county
  judge. In Champaign County, Carley ran for the office of county judge in
  November 1857 amid questions about whether or not he met the minimum residency
  requirements. Lincoln states that he spoke to Governor Bissell "to day."
  Lincoln informs Carley that Bissell "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 for</uLine> in it." <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mark Carley,
  25 February 1858, Lincoln Memorial Shrine, Redlands, CA; <title>Our
  Constitution</title> (Urbana, IL), 7 November 1857, 2:1-3.</bibl> 
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