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<date value='1858-08-02'>Monday, August 2, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln is busy at his desk. He writes eight brief letters. "Pardon
me for not writing a longer letter," he tells Henry Whitney. "I have
a great many letters to write." One is to B. C. Cook of Ottawa,
warning against nominating extreme abolitionists as candidates for
Congress and legislature in that district. Others go to Gillespie, J.
T. Eccles, and J. F. Alexander regarding speeches in their towns.
<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%3A555' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry C. Whitney</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:534-35; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A549' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Burton C. Cook</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:532-33; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A551' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:533; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A550' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph T. Eccles</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:533; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A548' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jediah F. Alexander</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:532; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A552' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Jonas</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:533-34; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A553' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to C. W. Michael and William Proctor</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:534; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A554' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Porter</xref>, 2 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:534.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-03'>Tuesday, August 3, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln answers request of W. H. Grigsby for position in his office.
"My partner, Mr. Herndon, controls our office in this respect, and I
have known of his declining at least a dozen applications like yours
within the last three months." He writes Daniel S. Dickinson of New
York regarding Alfred Hyde, convict he met in spring of 1857 while
Hyde was being taken to penitentiary at Alton.
<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%3A557' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Grigsby</xref>, 3 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:535-36; <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='1858-08-04'>Wednesday, August 4, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.2667, -89.8667' teiForm='name'>Carlinville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln is in town for several hours. During evening he talks
politics with John M. Palmer.
<bibl default='NO'>Carlinville Free Democrat, 5 August 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A559' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Palmer</xref>, 5 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:536.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-05'>Thursday, August 5, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln writes Palmer, promising to speak in Carlinville August 31,
1858. He also writes Dummer at Beardstown that he does not understand
Republican party to be committed to "no more slave states." All
"prefer" that there be no more, but many feel under obligation to
admit slave states from Texas should any present themselves.
<bibl default='NO'>Carlinville Free Democrat, 5 August 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A559' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Palmer</xref>, 5 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:536; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A558' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer</xref>, 5 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:536.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buy yard goods.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-06'>Friday, August
6, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln informs
Koerner that in response to many requests he is having his late speeches
printed. "Journal" is printing 7,000 copies of speech of July 17, 1858, and he
has made arrangements in Chicago for publication in German. "Please write me,
on receipt of this, and let me know if you have any news from Madison," he
concludes. "Every place seems to be coming quite up to my expectation, except
Madison." <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%3A560' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Gustave P. Koerner</xref>, 6 August 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:536-37.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-09'>Monday, August 9, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln writes briefly to Joseph O. Glover, mayor of Ottawa, on politics.
<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%3A561' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph O. Glover</xref>, 9 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:537.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
He writes regrets to his friend D. A. Cheever of Tremont, that
previous engagement prevents acceptance of speaking invitation and
suggests S. C. Parks of Lincoln as speaker.
<bibl default='NO'>IU—Original.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
He buys 10¢ plaster at his drug store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-10'>Tuesday, August 10, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>A newspaper correspondent in Springfield comments on Lincoln's popularity: "The old Whigs are
rallying under him, whom they know to be a true and tried standard bearer, and the able opponent
of Douglas." The correspondent adds, "Mr. Lincoln leaves to morrow evening for Beardstown, where
he will throw some of his hot shot into the Douglas camp, and charge home upon the doughface. It
will be the work of Lincoln to show the people the truth and to paint the dodger as he is."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 12 August 1858, 2:3.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln writes a letter to Albert Parker and remarks, "As to politics I am doing what I can
for the cause. They have a meeting at Tremont on Saturday the 14th and I wish you would go down
and mingle with your old friends upon that occasion." <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%3A562' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Albert Parker</xref>, 10 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:538.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-11'>Wednesday, August 11, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='39.7500, -90.6000' teiForm='name'>Naples, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln writes to Alexander Sympson of Carthage that he will be at
Augusta on 25. "Things look reasonably well. Will tell you more fully
when I see you." He tells Daniel A. Cheever of New Hampshire that his
latest Springfield speech has been printed, and sends 250 copies. If
more are needed, he can write to J. O. Johnson in Springfield.
<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%3A563' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Sympson</xref>, 11 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:538; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A874' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel A. Cheever</xref>, 11 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:415.</bibl>
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<p>
On evening train Lincoln goes to Naples on Illinois River, whence he
can easily reach Beardstown next morning.
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<date value='1858-08-12'>Thursday, August 12, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.0167, -90.4167' teiForm='name'>Beardstown, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln arrives in the morning in Beardstown "on board the steamer <ital>Sam Gaty</ital>"
from Naples, Illinois. A "procession of three or four hundred citizens...meet and escort" him as
he travels by carriage to the National Hotel. Sometime after two o'clock in the afternoon,
Lincoln, in his bid for a Senate seat against Stephen Douglas, delivers a two-hour campaign
speech in the "public square" before an audience of between 2,500 to 3,000 people. A newspaper
reports that Lincoln is scheduled to travel to Havana the next day "and thence to Peoria."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 17 August 1858, 2:4-5; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A564' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Beardstown, Illinois</xref>, 12 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:538-41.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-13'>Friday, August 13, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.3000, -90.0500' teiForm='name'>Havana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Beardstown citizens give Lincoln sendoff as he takes passage for
Havana. Arriving there in afternoon while Douglas is speaking, he is
met at wharf by crowd and escorted to residence of Francis Law.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 20 August 1858; Chicago Tribune, 20 August 1858.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-14'>Saturday, August 14, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.3000, -90.0500' teiForm='name'>Havana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln takes stand at 2 P.M. and speaks for two hours. William
Kellogg, congressman from district, follows him. "The day has been
extremely warm, but delegations from quite a distance are here."
Delegation from Bath asks Lincoln to speak there Monday, and he
accepts.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 20 August 1858; Chicago Tribune, 20 August 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A565' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Havana, Illinois</xref>, 14 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:541-43.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-16'>Monday, August 16, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1833, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Bath,
IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln, in his speech, reminisces. He calls
attention to presence on platform of several men who were in same company with
him in Black Hawk War, and reminds audience that 22 years ago he staked out
town of Bath, then a wooded wilderness. <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 21 August
1858.</bibl>
</p>
<p> "A large crowd assembled here to hear Lincoln today, and
all pronounce it a good day's work." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Illinois State
Journal</title>, 21 August 1858;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A566' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
at Bath, Illinois</xref>, 16 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:543-44.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-17'>Tuesday, August 17, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.1833, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Bath, IL</place> and <place key='40.3833, -90.1500' teiForm='name'>Lewistown, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>At
nine o'clock in the morning, a contingent of "one hundred horsemen" ride out to
meet Lincoln who is coming from Bath to Lewistown to deliver a speech. A large
crowd, enough to fill the "whole space in front of the Court House, extending
the length of an entire block," gathers in anticipation. At two o'clock in the
afternoon, William Kellogg, a Republican member of Illinois's congressional
delegation, introduces Lincoln. Lincoln speaks for two and one half hours, and
includes extracts "from the speeches and letters of Henry Clay." Lincoln
criticizes his opponent Stephen A. Douglas for refusing to state his opinion
clearly on the morality of slavery. When Lincoln finishes his speech, the crowd
gives him "three great cheers." One report deems his arguments "the most
powerful...ever heard in Old Fulton." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago Daily Press and
Tribune</title> (IL), 21 August 1858, 2:3-4;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A567' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
at Lewistown, Illinois</xref>, 17 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:544-47. </bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-18'>Wednesday, August 18, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Democratic correspondent chronicles Lincoln's arrival: "Mr. Lincoln
arrived this evening, and took rooms at the Peoria House—he
looks jaded. I take it he has no hope—he is evidently
disappointed in the feeling here—he is to reply to Senator
Douglas on tomorrow afternoon."
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 23 August 1858.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys yard of linen.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>]
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<date value='1858-08-19'>Thursday, August 19,
1858.</date>
<place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> At two o'clock in the
afternoon, following the adjournment of the Fourth District's Republican
Congressional Convention, approximately 3,000 people gather to hear senatorial
candidate Lincoln deliver a speech "from a stand on the east side of the public
square." Although inclement weather interrupts his speech, Lincoln completes it
"notwithstanding a continued drizzle of rain." One newspaper reports, "those
who went to scoff, came away...strong Lincoln men." The newspaper adds, "[the]
cool, calm arguments of Lincoln are perfectly irresistible." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 21 August 1858,
2:3.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-20'>Friday, August 20, 1858.</date>
<place key='41.3500, -88.4167' teiForm='name'>Morris, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
In order to enter Ottawa on debate day, Lincoln spends night in
Morris, arriving during evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 24 August 1858.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys and charges ($1) pound of tea.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>]
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<date value='1858-08-21'>Saturday, August 21,
1858.</date>
<place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>U.S. senatorial
candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas are in Ottawa, Illinois,
where they meet in their first joint debate. Newspapers report, "Twelve
Thousand Persons Present!" Douglas asserts, "Mr. Lincoln and his party...are
trying to array all the Northern States...against the South, to excite a
sectional war between the free States and the slave States." Lincoln responds,
"I leave it to you to say whether, in the history of our government, this
institution of slavery has not always failed to be a bond of union, and, on the
contrary, been an apple of discord and an element of division."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Daily Illinois State Register</title> (Springfield), 24 August
1858, 2:2-3; <title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 24
August 1858, 2:3; <title>Chicago (IL) Daily Press and Tribune</title>, 23
August 1858, 1:2-9, 4:1; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A1' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 21 August 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:1-37.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys and charges soap and coffee, then
sends "Son" for eight pounds of sugar. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
<title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>] </p>
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<date value='1858-08-22'>Sunday, August 22, 1858.</date>
<place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln and Lovejoy remain in Ottawa as guests of Mayor Glover. To J.
O. Cunningham, Lincoln writes his impressions of previous day's
encounter: "Douglas and I, for the first time this canvass, crossed
swords here yesterday; the fire flew some, and I am glad to know I am
yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could
[get] near enough to hear."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A2' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph O. Cunningham</xref>, 22 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:37.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-23'>Monday, August 23, 1858.</date>
<place key='41.1000, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Henry,
IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln addresses meeting, having boarded 3 A.M.
train at Ottawa. <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Herndon & Weik (1892 ed.)</title>, II, 108;
Chicago Tribune, 24 August 1858; Ottawa Republican, 23 August 1858.</bibl>
</p>
<p> He writes Ebenezer Peck of Chicago asking Peck and Judd to meet him at
Freeport to discuss question technique Douglas introduced at Ottawa.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-08-24'>Tuesday, August 24, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.9333, -90.3667' teiForm='name'>Galesburg, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.2167, -90.9500' teiForm='name'>Augusta, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln, on a stopover en route to Augusta, arrives in Galesburg at about 3:30 in the
afternoon on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. He makes "a few remarks" before
a crowd of approximately a thousand people who gather at the Bancroft House. Lincoln apologizes
that the short length of his stay in Galesburg does not allow him enough "time to make anything
of a speech." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 26 August 1858,
2:3.</bibl>
</p>
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<date value='1858-08-25'>Wednesday, August 25,
1858.</date>
<place key='40.2167, -90.9500' teiForm='name'>Augusta, IL</place> and <place key='40.4500, -90.6667' teiForm='name'>Macomb, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p> In the morning, the Republican Party holds a nominating
convention at the Presbyterian Church in Augusta. The convention adjourns, and
an audience of approximately 1,200 people gathers at "a beautiful grove in the
suburbs of the town" to hear Lincoln deliver a speech. Lincoln begins speaking
at around two o'clock in the afternoon, focusing his remarks on the slavery
issue. In spite of the rainy weather, most of the audience stays to listen to
the two-hour speech, "even the ladies, of whom there were a large number
present, kept their seats till the speech was finished." In the evening,
Lincoln speaks to an audience that fills the Macomb courthouse. A newspaper
reports that Lincoln delivers his remarks in a relaxed manner, and that "his
speech was more like an earnest conversation with his Old Whig friends."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 28 August 1858, 1:2;
<title>The Augusta Eagle</title> (IL), 8 December 1932, 1:1-2; <title>The
Plymouth Locomotive</title> (IL), 28 August 1858, 2:1-2; Abraham Lincoln to
Alexander Sympson (copy), 11 August 1858, copy files, IHi, Springfield, IL;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A3' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
at Augusta, Illinois</xref>, 25 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:37-38.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1858-08-26'>Thursday, August 26, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.4500, -90.6667' teiForm='name'>Macomb, IL</place> and <place key='41.7000, -89.3167' teiForm='name'>Amboy, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln checks out of Randolph Hotel at Macomb in morning.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Randolph Hotel Room Book</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Before leaving town, T. P. Pearson, photographer, makes ambrotype of him.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA—Statement of Jacob Thompson.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In afternoon he goes to Amboy where he makes short speech and stays night.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA—Letter of Charles E. Ives, 7 February 1927.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1858-08-27'>Friday, August 27, 1858.</date>
<place key='42.2833, -89.6167' teiForm='name'>Freeport, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas are in Freeport, Illinois, where they meet in
their second joint debate. Douglas charges, "[Lincoln] will not tell you
distinctly whether he will vote for or against the admission of any more slave
States." Lincoln rebuts, "I do not ask for the vote of any one who supposes
that I have secret purposes or pledges that I dare not speak out." Lincoln
encourages voters to "Go for" the candidate whose "views" are "in accordance
with your feelings." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title>
(Springfield), 30 August 1858, 2:3, 1 September 1858, 2:1-4, 2 September 1858,
2:1-4; <title>Chicago (IL) Daily Press and Tribune</title>, 30 August 1858,
1:4-6, 2:2-7;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A5' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Second
Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Freeport, Illinois</xref>, 27 August 1858,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:38-76.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1858-08-28'>Saturday, August 28, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.7333, -89.0000' teiForm='name'>El Paso, IL</place> and <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Changing from Illinois Central to Peoria & Oquawka, Lincoln has hour's wait in El
Paso. Crowd gathers, and he makes short speech. He is on his way to Peoria. <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago
Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 3 September 1858, 2:3.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1858-08-29'>Sunday, August 29, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
"Lincoln arrived here on Sunday evening, en route for Tremont."
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4 September 1858.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1858-08-30'>Monday, August 30, 1858.</date>
<place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>The Tazewell County Republicans hold their nominating convention in the morning. At about 1:30
in the afternoon, John A. Jones introduces Lincoln, who speaks from the steps of the courthouse
before a crowd of between 1,500 and 2,000 people. In his two-hour speech, Lincoln compares the
Whig and Republican parties, explains his opposition to slavery, and discusses other "great
issues" of the day. William Kellogg, a candidate for Congress and a former circuit court judge,
follows Lincoln on the program. <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 2
September 1858, 2:3; <title>Peoria Daily Transcript</title> (IL), 31 August 1858, 1:1;
<title>Washington Investigator</title> (IL), 2 September 1858, 2:3; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A6' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Tremont, Illinois</xref>, 30 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:76-77.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1858-08-31'>Tuesday, August 31, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.2667, -89.8667' teiForm='name'>Carlinville, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln arrives by train in the morning and proceeds to the American House. At three o'clock
in the afternoon, at a place called Morton's Grove, he delivers a speech about the future of
slavery in the United States. A local newspaper reports that Lincoln's speech is "honest,
logical and telling." John M. Palmer, an attorney and a former member of the Illinois State
Senate, follows Lincoln on the program and makes "one of his usual side-splitting speeches,
dealing terrible blows to the bogus-Democracy in every sentence." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Carlinville Free
Democrat</title> (IL), 2 September 1858, 2:4-5; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A7' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Carlinville, Illinois</xref>, 31 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:77-81.</bibl>
</p>
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