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<date value='1858-03-01'>Monday, March 1, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
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DeWitt Circuit Court convenes.
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<date value='1858-03-03'>Wednesday, March 3, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes and files demurrer in <name type='case'>Allen v. Illinois Central</name>, signing "Moore & Lincoln p.d."
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-04'>Thursday, March 4, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton,
IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> On Lincoln's motion, sheriff's return in
<name type='case'>Allen v. Illinois Central</name> is quashed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-08'>Monday, March 8, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln sits as judge pro-tem on 20 cases in DeWitt Circuit Court,
writing "Judge's Remarks" in judge's docket.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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Returning to Springfield by train, he receives $250 from Daniel Doup,
for whom he has chancery case on file, and writes receipt.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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He writes Owen Lovejoy, Abolitionist-Republican of Princeton: "I have
just returned from court in one of the counties of your District,
where I had an inside view that few will have who correspond with
you. . . . Your danger <uLine>has been</uLine> that democracy would
wheedle some republican to run against you without a nomination,
relying mainly on democratic votes. . . . I think it is not expected
that you can be beaten for a nomination; but do not let what I say,
as to that, lull you. Now, let this be strictly confidential."
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A479' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy</xref>, 8 March 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:435-36.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-09'>Tuesday, March 9, 1858.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>?
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<date value='1858-03-10'>Wednesday, March 10, 1858.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>?
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<date value='1858-03-11'>Thursday, March 11, 1858.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes Solon Cummins that land case on which he has been
intermittently engaged since 1850 has been won 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%3A480' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Solon Cumins</xref>, 11 March 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:436.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-12'>Friday, March 12, 1858.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>?
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<date value='1858-03-18'>Thursday, March 18, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> In the Logan County Circuit Court, Lincoln and Charles H. Goodrich represent defendants
Lorenzo D. Hamilton and Jefferson L. Dugger in the case of <name type='case' key='L01049'>Hickey
v. Hamilton & Dugger</name>. Lincoln files a plea for the defendants, signing it
"Goodrich & Lincoln." The plaintiff, John W. Hickey, is suing Hamilton and Dugger for
breach of contract related to the sale of some hogs. <bibl default='NO'>Plea, filed 18 March 1858,
<ital>Hickey v. Hamilton & Dugger</ital>, IHi, Springfield, IL; Testimony, March 1858
Term, <ital>Hickey v. Hamilton & Dugger</ital>, case file, Logan County Circuit Court,
Logan County Courthouse, Lincoln, IL.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-22'>Monday, March 22, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes to Gov. Bissell requesting pardon for Samuel Jones and
his son James, convicted last week of stealing five shoats. Lincoln
knows little of case, but Jones' neighbors want him pardoned. He
encloses letters of Judge Davis, Lamon, prosecuting attorney, and
members of bar, supporting petition.
<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%3A481' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Bissell</xref>, 22 March 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:436.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-24'>Wednesday, March 24,
1858.</date>
<place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes on
politics to O. M. Hatch, secretary of state, Springfield, suggesting state
Republican convention. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-26'>Friday, March 26, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> In the Logan County Circuit Court, Judge David Davis continues the case of <name type='case' key='L01050'>Hildreth v. Gill</name>. Lincoln and Lionel P. Lacey represent defendant Thomas N.
Gill, whom McCarty Hildreth is suing over the sale of 1,231 hogs.<bibl default='NO'>Order, 26 March 1858,
<ital>Hildreth v. Gill</ital>, Circuit Court Record 1, 50; Declaration, filed 3 March 1858,
<ital>Hildreth v. Gill</ital>, case file, both in Logan County Circuit Court, Logan County
Courthouse, Lincoln, IL.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-27'>Saturday, March 27, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1333, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Lincoln,
IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln and
Goodrich represent defendants in <name type='case' key='L00944'>Bruner et al.
v. Bruner et al.</name>, bill to correct mortgage deed. Report submitted is
approved and ordered recorded. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<p> In Springfield,
Lincoln finds among his mail letter from Jonathan Haines of Pekin, client in
reaper patent litigation, and one from Alfred Hyde, convict. He writes to
Haines about two law suits, one pending, another prospective. "I really can not
find time to prepare such a suit, until the Spring courts are over." <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%3A482' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Jonathan Haines</xref>, 27 March 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:436-37.</bibl>
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<p> Hyde
reminds Lincoln of seeing him on train March 4, 1857, and asks his assistance
in seeking pardon. Lincoln files Hyde's letter until Aug., when he writes
Daniel Dickinson of New York about him. <bibl default='NO'>Hyde to Lincoln, 25 March 1858,
Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln 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%3A556' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Daniel S. Dickinson</xref>, 3 August 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:535.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-30'>Tuesday, March 30, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>In the Woodford County Circuit
Court, Lincoln and Henry Grove file a plea for defendants Armstrong Goings and
Samuel W. Beck in the case of <name type='case' key='L01801'>People v. Goings
and Beck</name>. Goings and Beck are on trial for allegedly failing to bring
before the Court Melissa Goings, whom the state is trying for murder in the
related case of <name type='case' key='L01800'>People v. Goings</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Plea (copy), filed 30 March 1858, <title>People v. Goings and
Beck</title>, copy files, IHi, Springfield, IL; Writ of Scire Facias, 1 January
1858, <title>People v. Goings and Beck</title>, Woodford County Circuit Court,
Woodford County Courthouse, Eureka, IL.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-03-31'>Wednesday, March 31, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.
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Acting with Shope for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01766'>Forney v. L. C. Blakslee & Co.</name>, Lincoln agrees to defendants' pleas.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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