<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-01'>Thursday, July 1, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the U. S. Circuit Court, Lincoln writes and files
  an affidavit in the case of <name type='case' key='L02171'>Macready v. Alton,
  Illinois</name>. Manuel Eyre attests to the statement that "in the case of Mary
  Macready vs The City of Alton the plaintiff has paid to Margaret Brown, on
  witness fee, the sum ten dollars and seventyfive cents." Macready is suing the
  city of Alton for $20,000 in damages. She fell into a hole and injured herself
  while walking on a sidewalk in Alton. Macready claims that the City allowed "a
  deep and dangerous excavation to be and remain in one of the public sidewalks."
  Further, the City did not "warn and notify persons upon said sidewalk, of the
  excavation." Lincoln &amp; Herndon, Orville Hickman Browning, and Nehemiah H.
  Bushnell represent Macready.<bibl default='NO'>Affidavit of Manuel Eyre, 1 July 1858,
  <title>Macready v. Alton, Illinois</title>, Record Group 21, case file 335;
  Declaration, Praecipe, filed 17 April 1858, <title>Macready v. Alton,
  Illinois</title>, Record Group 21, case file 335; Clerk's Docket, 17 April
  1858, <title>Macready v. Alton, Illinois</title>, Record Group 21, [Clerk's]
  General Docket, Vol. 1, fol. 67, 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' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-02'>Friday, July 2, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends Robert Moseley of Paris "a little article" he wants 
published in "Prairie Beacon" next week. "Besides my own 
recollection, I have carefully examined the Journals since I saw you; 
and I know the editor will be entirely safe in publishing the 
article. Get it into the first paper."
<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%3A523' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert Moseley</xref>, 2 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:483.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys two fans at John Williams' store, then sends Robert 
for pair of white gloves.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-03'>Saturday, July 3, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and
  <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and several hundred other
  people depart Springfield by train at approximately 6:30 a.m. to attend the
  Fourth of July festivities in Jacksonville. Also among the passengers are
  members of the Pioneer Fire Company, the German Turners gymnastic organization,
  and some of Springfield's musical bands. The train arrives in Jacksonville at
  about nine o'clock and the passengers, along with those awaiting the train's
  arrival, parade to a "pleasant grove" about "a mile and a half west" of the
  Jacksonville depot. Lincoln is one of the guests of honor on stage as former
  Congressman Richard Yates delivers a speech commemorating the July 4 holiday.
  Following Yates's speech, the crowd partakes in an "old fashioned barbecue." In
  the afternoon, the Turners perform a gymnastic routine for the audience, and
  "Mr. Brooks, the balloonist," ascends in his hot-air balloon. The day's
  activities conclude with a fireworks display. At nine o'clock in the evening,
  the Springfield group makes its way to the depot for the return trip. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 6 July 1858, 2:2-3;
  <title>Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1949</title>,
  (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1950),
  2051.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-04'>Sunday, July 4, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
For many days Lincoln has been listing 1856 election results as 
guides to campaigning to win legislature. His calculations are completed 
before July 16, 1858. He concludes that, in House, 17 districts can 
be ignored as hopeless. "Struggle for the following." He lists 19 
districts, with figures, analysis, and recapitulation. In Senate, "we 
must struggle for" six districts.
<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%3A520' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>1858 Campaign Strategy</xref>, [July 1858], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:476-81.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-05'>Monday, July 5, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is among the attendees at a dinner held at 2:30 in the afternoon at the St. Nicholas Hotel to honor members of Springfield's
  Pioneer Fire Company. Members of Jacksonville's Union Fire Company, guests of
  Springfield's firefighters, are also in attendance. Lincoln makes the following
  toast: "The Pioneer Fire Company. May they extinguish all the
  bad flames, but keep the flame of patriotism ever burning brightly in the
  hearts of the ladies." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title>
  (Springfield), 7 July 1858, 3:1;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A524' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Toast
  to the Pioneer Fire Company of Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 5 July 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:483.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-06'>Tuesday, July 6, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has several cases in U.S. Circuit Court. In <name type='case' key='L02143'>Emmitt v. Barret</name>, continued from February 10, 1858, Lincoln files demurrer for plaintiff. In <name type='case' key='L02160'>Keith &amp; Thornton v. Burt</name>, defendant defaults and jury assesses damages of plaintiff, whom he represents, at $1,311.43. Defendant in <name type='case' key='L02270'>S. C. Davis &amp; Co. v. Gibson</name> also defaults, and Lincoln gets order for foreclosure unless $927.87 is paid in 20 days.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-07'>Wednesday, July 7, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L02143'>Emmitt v. Barret</name> is submitted to court on Lincoln's demurrer, and court considers.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes John J. Crittenden that it is rumored he is anxious for 
re-election of Douglas and Harris. He hopes not, but if so, he wants 
to know it. "The confirmation would pain me much, but I should still 
continue your friend and admirer."
<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%3A525' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John J. Crittenden</xref>, 7 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:483-84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-08'>Thursday, July
  8, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> "Mr. Lincoln
  was here a moment ago," Herndon writes Trumbull, "and told me that he had just
  seen Col. Dougherty. . . . He told Lincoln that the National Democracy intended
  to run in every county and district, a National Democrat for each and every
  office. Lincoln replied, 'If you do this the thing is settled.' . . . Lincoln
  is very certain as to Miller's and Bateman's election . . . but is gloomy and
  rather uncertain about his own success." <bibl default='NO'>Horace White, <title>The Life of
  Lyman Trumbull</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 89.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-09'>Friday, July 9, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, in Chicago for U.S. District Court, listens to Douglas 
deliver opening speech of his senatorial campaign from balcony of 
Tremont House.
<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%3A526' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Chicago, Illinois</xref>, 10 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:484-502.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-10'>Saturday, July 10, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the evening, Lincoln delivers a speech from the Tremont House to an audience that is, "in
    point of numbers, about three-fourths as large as that of the previous evening, when Douglas
    held forth; and in point of enthusiasm, about four times as great." Lincoln responds to charges
    made by Stephen A. Douglas, his opponent in the U. S. Senate race, regarding Lincoln's stance on
    several issues, including slavery. Lincoln declares, "I have always hated slavery, I think as
    much as any Abolitionist...I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until
    this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. I always believed that everybody
    was against it, and that it was in course of ultimate extinction...and that such was the belief
    of the framers of the constitution itself." Lincoln refers to the recent Fourth of July
    celebration, and he asks the audience, "I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of
    Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it
    where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not
    mean some other man?" <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 12 July 1858,
     1:2-6; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A526' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Chicago, Illinois</xref>, 10 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
     2:484-502.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-12'>Monday, July 12, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Delightful day&#8212;Cool &amp; pleasant," Browning records in his 
diary. "Lincoln &amp; I took tea with Guerdon S. Hubbard."
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-14'>Wednesday, July 14, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>
  In the evening, Lincoln arrives in Springfield from Chicago. <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%3A527' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Hanna</xref>, 15 July 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:502.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-15'>Thursday, July 15, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to attorney
  Gustave P. Koerner of Belleville, Illinois. Lincoln asks Koerner, a native of
  Germany and a former Illinois Supreme Court justice and Lieutenant Governor, if
  he might arrange for fellow native-German Friedrich K.F. Hecker to "address the
  germans, at this place, and a few others at least." Lincoln writes that "one of
  our german republicans here" has recently approached him about the possibility
  of getting Hecker to speak to the Germans living in "this region." Hecker, a
  former German revolutionary, is a lawyer by training and farms in Summerville,
  Illinois, located near Belleville. Lincoln also writes that he has "just
  returned from Chicago" and gives his impressions of a reception held there for
  his political opponent, Stephen A. Douglas: "I was present at his reception in
  Chicago, and it certainly was very large and imposing; but judging from the
  opinions of others better acquainted with faces there, and by the strong call
  for me to speak, when he closed, I really believe we could have voted him down
  in that very crowd. Our meeting, twentyfour hours after, called only twelve
  hours before it came together and got up without trumpery, was nearly as large,
  and five times as enthusiastic." Lincoln also writes to attorney William H.
  Hanna of Bloomington in answer to Hanna's letter of July 13. Hanna wrote to
  inform Lincoln that Douglas is scheduled to be in Bloomington on Friday, July
  16, should Lincoln decide to come to Bloomington as well. Lincoln writes, "No
  accident preventing, I will be with you Friday afternoon and evening." <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%3A528' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gustave P. Koerner</xref>, 15 July 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:502-3; John M. Palmer, <title>The
  Bench and Bar of Illinois</title> (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1899), 1:47-50;
  John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, <title>American National Biography</title>
  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 10:486-87;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A527' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Hanna</xref>, 15 July 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:502; <title>Bloomington Daily
  Pantagraph</title> (IL), 8 August 1870, 2:1; William H. Hanna to Abraham
  Lincoln, 13 July 1858, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-16'>Friday, July 16, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
 From Springfield Lincoln writes Joseph Gillespie, stressing 
importance of capturing Fillmore vote of 1856. In evening he is in 
Bloomington listening to Douglas. As soon as Douglas finishes, loud 
calls go up for Lincoln. After some hesitation he declines to speak. 
"This meeting," he says, "was called by the friends of Judge Douglas, 
and it would be improper for me to address it."
<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%3A529' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 16 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:503-4; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A530' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 16 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:504; Edwin E. Sparks, ed., <title>The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858</title> (Springfield, IL: 1908), 50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-17'>Saturday, July 17, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.2500, -89.2333' teiForm='name'>Atlanta, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is in Douglas's audience at morning speech in nearby Atlanta. 
Calls for him ring out when Douglas finishes, but he again declines 
to take advantage of Democratic meeting. Douglas speaks again in 
afternoon at B. S. Edwards' grove, Springfield. In evening Lincoln 
speaks at state house, devoting his speech mainly to refutation of 
Douglas's charges of disunion sentiments, resistance to the Dred 
Scott decision, and Negro equality.
<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%3A531' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Atlanta, Illinois</xref>, 17 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:504; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A532' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 17 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:504-21; Edwin E. Sparks, ed., <title>The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858</title> (Springfield, IL: 1908), 52-54.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-19'>Monday, July
  19, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>? </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln &amp;
  Herndon win $1,294.80 judgment in <name type='case' key='L00461'>Ayer v.
  Willard</name>, Macon County attachment case, when defendant fails to appear. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-20'>Tuesday, July 20, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Marshalling his resources for campaign, Lincoln writes Henry E. Dummer of Beardstown about his fee in <name type='case' key='L02489'>Sprague v. Illinois River RR et al.</name>. "I am now in need of money. Suppose we say the amount shall be $50&#8212;? . . . Please get the money and 
send it to me. And while you have pen in hand, tell me what you may know about politics, down your way." He writes to John Mathers, Jacksonville Republican, agreeing that offensive tactics against Douglas are superior to defensive.
<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%3A533' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer</xref>, 20 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:521; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A534' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Mathers</xref>, 20 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:522.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-21'>Wednesday, July 21, 1858.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln's absence is shown by fact that he does not read Gillespie's 
letter of July 18, 1858 until his return night of 24th.
<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%3A538' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 25 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:523-24.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-22'>Thursday, July 22, 1858.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Republicans on challenging Douglas to debate. 
Chicago "Times" says his business is to form alliance with 
anti-Douglas Democrats (Danites).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:523.</bibl>****
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Times</title>, 24 July 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-24'>Saturday, July 24, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>While in Chicago, U.S. Senate Republican nominee Lincoln writes to his
  opponent Senator Stephen A. Douglas, and proposes that the two candidates
  square off in a series of debates. Republican State Central Committee Chairman
  Norman B. Judd "hand" delivers Lincoln's note to Douglas. Lincoln indicates
  that Judd "is authorized to receive your answer; and, if agreeable to you, to
  enter into the terms of such arrangement." <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%3A535' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas</xref>, 24 July 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:522.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-25'>Sunday, July 25, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln catches up on his correspondence. To Gillespie he writes 
encouragement: "I do hope you are worse scared than hurt, though you 
ought to know best. We must not lose that district." "I write this 
mostly because I learn we are in great danger in Madison," he writes 
Koerner. "It is said half the Americans are going for Douglas; and 
that slam will ruin us if not counteracted." He writes George W. 
Woods of Macoupin County that he cannot make appointment for speech 
until debates are scheduled.
<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%3A538' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 25 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:523-24; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A539' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gustave P. Koerner</xref>, 25 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:524; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A540' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George W. Woods</xref>, 25 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:524.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-27'>Tuesday, July 27, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Douglas speaks in afternoon. Lincoln is present, and announces, after 
Douglas had concluded, that he will speak in evening at courthouse. 
He does so before moderate crowd.
<bibl default='NO'>Frank E. Stevens, "The Life of Stephen Arnold Douglas," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society</title> 16 (October 1923-January 1924):556; Edwin E. Sparks, ed., <title>The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858</title> (Springfield, IL: 1908), 108; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A541' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Clinton, Illinois</xref>, 27 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:525-27.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-28'>Wednesday, July 28, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place> (or <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>) and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Douglas dine together, either at Clinton or Decatur. 
Later Lincoln returns to Springfield, where he finds Douglas's letter 
accepting his challenge and naming seven places of debates, subject 
not mentioned at dinner.
<bibl default='NO'>Edwin E. Sparks, ed., <title>The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858</title> (Springfield, IL: 1908), 68.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-07-29'>Thursday, July 29, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='40.0167, -88.5667' teiForm='name'>Monticello,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Douglas meet on road about two miles
  from Monticello. Douglas, having spoken there, is on his way to Bement; Lincoln
  is going to Monticello. Lincoln has his reply to Douglas's letter accepting his
  challenge, and asks latter to wait until he compares it with copy, but Douglas
  refuses. Lincoln proceeds to Monticello, makes speech, and that night sends his
  reply to Douglas. <bibl default='NO'>Edwin E. Sparks, ed., <title>The Lincoln-Douglas
  Debates of 1858</title> (Springfield, IL: 1908), 66-68;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A543' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas</xref>, 29 July 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:528-30;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A542' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Monticello, Illinois</xref>, 29 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:527.</bibl> 
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-30'>Friday, July 30, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Correspondent of Illinois State Register, writing from Monticello 
July 29, 1858, reports: "It was expected that he [Lincoln] would 
remain here for a day or two, or follow Senator Douglas to Paris, but 
he left suddenly on the midnight train for Springfield." (By 
"midnight train" Great Western, which Lincoln would have taken at 
Bement, is indicated.)
</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-31'>Saturday, July 31, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Douglas accepting latter's terms for debates. He also 
writes to Henry Asbury, anticipating Douglas's stand during the 
campaign: Douglas cares nothing for South, but will attempt to hold 
Illinois by every means. If pressed on power of territorial 
legislature to exclude slavery, he will answer that slavery cannot 
exist without "protective territorial legislation." He writes John C. 
Bagby of Rushville, declining to speak there August 21, 1858, as he 
debates Douglas at Ottawa on that date. He will try to send Trumbull.
<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%3A546' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas</xref>, 31 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:531-32; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A544' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry Asbury</xref>, 31 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:530-31; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A545' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Bagby</xref>, 31 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:531</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys "trimming" for his wife at John Williams' store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>