<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-01'>Wednesday, September 1, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, en route to Clinton leaves Springfield at 9 P.M. for Decatur 
to take Illinois Central for Clinton. He forgets his promise to wake 
Horace White, "Tribune" reporter, at Decatur, and White is carried to 
Indiana line. Lincoln is much amused when White appears in Clinton 
after meeting is over.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon &amp; Weik, II, 111.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-02'>Thursday, September 2, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Coming up from Decatur on morning train, Lincoln is forced by 
citizens of Clinton to go on to Wapella so they can escort him back 
to Clinton with procession. Bloomington Pantagraph calls Clinton 
meeting "one of the largest and most enthusiastic political 
gatherings that we have seen since the days of 'Tippecanoe and Tyler 
too.'"
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 6 September 1858; <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 7 September 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A8' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speeches at Clinton, Illinois</xref>, 2 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:81-84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-09-03'>Friday, September 3,
  1858.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to
  Dr. William Fithian to inform him that he is scheduled to deliver a speech in
  the doctor's hometown of Danville on September 22. Lincoln explains that
  Stephen A. Douglas will speak in Danville on September 21, which provides
  Lincoln with an opportunity: "My recent experience shows that speaking at the
  same place the next day after D. is the very thing&#8212;it is, in fact, a
  concluding speech on him." Lincoln ends the letter by asking Fithian to "Give
  full notice to all surrounding counties" about his upcoming visit to Danville. 
  <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%3A9' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William Fithian</xref>, 3 September 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:84-85.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In
  Bloomington, Lincoln is the guest of Judge David Davis. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Daily
  Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 7 September 1858, 2:3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-04'>Saturday, September 4, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 2 court house bell rings, procession forms, proceeds to Davis 
home, and escorts Lincoln to town square. He addresses large crowd.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 7 September 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A10' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Bloomington, Illinois</xref>, 4 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:85-90; Sherman D. Wakefield, <title>How Lincoln Became President: The Part Played by Bloomington, Illinois, and Certain of Its Citizens in Preparing Him for the Presidency and Securing his Nomination and Election</title> (New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936), 87-91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Returning to Springfield, he stops off in Lincoln and attends Douglas 
meeting, but does not speak.
<bibl default='NO'>Lawrence B. Stringer, ed., <title>History of Logan County</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1911), 1:223-24.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-05'>Sunday, September 5, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln enjoys day of rest, except for talking politics with callers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:90.</bibl>****
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-09-06'>Monday, September 6,
  1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>, and en route to <place key='40.0167, -88.5667' teiForm='name'>Monticello,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to John C. Bagby, of Rushville,
  Illinois, who is running as a Republican for a seat in the Illinois Senate.
  Lincoln notes that he has heard that Bagby is "discouraged" about his chances
  of winning. Lincoln offers Bagby some encouragement: "That wont do. You
  <uLine>must</uLine> be elected." Lincoln advises Bagby to let the "committee at
  Chicago" know "the <uLine>amount</uLine> and <uLine>nature</uLine> of the help
  you can make available, and I expect they will furnish it." Lincoln admonishes
  Bagby not to "say 'if I can'," but, instead to "say <uLine>'I will.'</uLine>" 
  <bibl default='NO'>Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., <title>Historical Encyclopedia of
  Illinois and History of Schuyler County</title> (Chicago: Munsell Publishing,
  1908), 31; <title>The Schuyler Citizen</title> (Rushville, IL), 8 September
  1858, 2:1;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A11' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John C. Bagby</xref>, 6 September 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:90.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Crowds of
  people gathered to hear Lincoln speak in Monticello, march to meet him "on the
  Bement road one mile." There they encounter Lincoln along with "a delegation of
  300 persons who had come from Decatur by a special train." The marchers then
  proceed "through town to an adjacent grove." After eating a dinner there,
  Lincoln speaks to a crowd of approximately 3,000 "for nearly three hours." A
  newspaper reports on Lincoln's comments about the growing popularity of the
  Republican party: "Two years ago the American party was against us here,
  and...his procession consisted of one man carrying a large flag, and himself
  and his audience consisted of 30 persons. But all is changed now. The
  Americans...Whigs and Republicans are firmly united." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago
  Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 9 September 1858, 1:2.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-09-07'>Tuesday, September 7, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.4667, -88.3667' teiForm='name'>Mattoon,
  IL</place> and <place key='39.6000, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Paris, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In morning Lincoln
  speaks to audience of 1,000. He proceeds to Paris by train, arriving at 3 and
  speaking until 5 P.M. Owen Lovejoy addresses meeting in evening. <bibl default='NO'>Chicago
  Tribune, 8 September 1858, 11 September 1858; Herndon &amp; Weik, II, 112;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A12' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Paris, Illinois</xref>, 7 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:90-91.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-08'>Wednesday, September 8, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Hillsboro, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>Lincoln travels by train, on the Terre Haute &amp; Alton Railroad, to Hillsboro. En route,
    the train makes a stop at the Shelbyville station where some recognize Lincoln and give him
    "three cheers." He arrives in Hillsboro in the evening, and proceeds to the home of Joseph T.
    Eccles, a local merchant and justice of the peace. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and
     Tribune</title> (IL), 14 September 1858, 2:3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-09'>Thursday, September 9, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Hillsboro, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
During morning Lincoln receives "constant stream of old friends" at 
Eccles home. In afternoon he speaks for two hours under circus tent 
after circus performance. His platform is circus wagon, and he talks 
above rain drumming on canvas.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Tribune</title>, 14 September 1858; Register, 10 September 1858; IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>. XIII, 229.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-10'>Friday, September 10, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.1500, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Hillsboro, IL</place> and <place key='38.8833, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>Alton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Republicans escort Lincoln to station and send him on his way "with 
three rousing cheers." He spends night at Alton.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Tribune</title>, 14 September 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-11'>Saturday, September 11, 1858.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -90.1833' teiForm='name'>Alton, IL</place> and <place key='38.8000, -89.9500' teiForm='name'>Edwardsville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks at Edwardsville at 1 P.M., after morning trip from 
Alton. Horace White, reporter, is impressed by "the quiet autumn day 
in the quaint old town; the serious people clustered around the 
platform; Joseph Gillespie officiating as chairman," as by few other 
meetings of campaign.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Herndon &amp; Weik (1892 ed.)</title>, II, 114.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks at Highland in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 15 September 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A13' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois</xref>, 11 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:91-96; IHi&#8212;Transcript of statement of Joseph Gillespie.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys five pounds of coffee.
<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='1858-09-12'>Sunday, September 12, 1858.</date>
            <place key='38.7333, -89.6667' teiForm='name'>Highland, IL</place> and <place key='38.8833, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Greenville, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln travels from Highland to Greenville, "where unusual preparations have been made to
    receive him." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 15 September 1858,
    2:3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-13'>Monday, September 13, 1858.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -89.4000' teiForm='name'>Greenville, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln delivers a two-hour speech beginning at one o'clock in the afternoon at Colcord's
    Grove, an area located on the west end of Greenville. Afterward, he and others go to the grounds
    of the "old Presbyterian parsonage...for refreshments." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>The Greenville
     Advocate</title> (IL), 13 February 1928, 3:1-6, 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%3A14' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Greenville, Illinois</xref>, 13 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:96.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-14'>Tuesday, September 14, 1858.</date>
            <place key='37.4500, -89.2667' teiForm='name'>Jonesboro, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln arrives during evening. Donati's comet, appearance of which 
causes much excitement, is plainly visible. "Mr. Lincoln greatly 
admired this strange visitor, and he and I sat for an hour or more in 
front of the hotel looking at it," wrote Horace White.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon &amp; Weik, II, 119; Chicago Tribune, 17 September 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-15'>Wednesday, September 15, 1858.</date>
            <place key='37.4500, -89.2667' teiForm='name'>Jonesboro, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Third joint debate takes place. Douglas comes up from Cairo with 
several carloads of supporters. Audience is smallest of series. White 
wrote: "The country people came into the little town with ox teams 
mostly, and a very stunted breed of oxen, too. Their wagons were 
old-fashioned and looked as though they were ready to fall in pieces."
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon &amp; Weik, II, 118; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A17' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Third Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Illinois</xref>, 15 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:102-44.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-16'>Thursday, September 16, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='38.5167, -89.1333' teiForm='name'>Centralia,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> State Fair is in progress. Lincoln arrives at noon
  and stops at Centralia House. Douglas is also in town. Neither speaks, but
  crowds gather when they appear at fair grounds. Lincoln takes refuge in
  Illinois Central superintendent's office and writes three letters. He asks
  Washburne if, as Douglas charged at Jonesboro, Washburne has been opposing
  admission of new slave states. He tells Martin P. Sweet that, at Jonesboro, in
  a long, involved sentence, he found himself saying something about Sweet that
  might sound disparaging in the hands of "those villainous reporters Douglas has
  with him. . . . I write this to assure you that nothing can be farther from me
  than to <uLine>feel,</uLine> much less, intentionally <uLine>say</uLine>
  anything disrespectful to you." He writes Joseph Gillespie urging action to
  unite Republicans and "Americans" in Madison County. <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%3A19' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 16 September 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:144-45;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A18' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Martin P. Sweet</xref>, 16 September 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:144;
  <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 Joseph Gillespie</xref>, 16 September 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:416.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln takes
  evening northbound train on his way to Charleston for fourth debate. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon &amp; Weik, II, 118; Chicago Tribune, 20 September 1858;
  Greenville Advocate, 23 September 1858.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-17'>Friday, September 17, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.4667, -88.3667' teiForm='name'>Mattoon, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln arrives at 6 A.M. Both he and Douglas spend day and night in Mattoon.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry C. Whitney, <title>Life on the Circuit with Lincoln</title> (Boston: Estes &amp; Lauriat, 1892), 464-65; Chicago Tribune, 21 September 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-18'>Saturday, September 18, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Fourth joint debate takes place. Giant processions escort both 
principals from Mattoon to Charleston. Lincoln is taken to Capitol 
House, where H. P. H. Bromwell makes reception speech. Lincoln 
responds. Thousands crowd city, among them several carloads from 
Indiana. Lincoln opens debate at 2:45.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry C. Whitney, <title>Life on the Circuit with Lincoln</title> (Boston: Estes &amp; Lauriat, 1892), 464-65; <title>Chicago Tribune</title>, 21 September 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A20' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois</xref>, 18 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:145-201.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-19'>Sunday, September 19, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln visits Coles County relatives and friends, spending night 
with A. H. Chapman, son-in-law of Dennis Hanks.
<bibl default='NO'>Charles H. Coleman, <title>Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois</title> (New Brunswick, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 185-86.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-20'>Monday, September 20, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.5833, -88.6000' teiForm='name'>Sullivan, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Finding that Douglas is to speak at 1 P.M., Lincoln postpones his 
meeting from 2 to 3, and writes note in pencil to Douglas. Lincoln's 
supporters, escorting him to rally, interrupt Douglas, and brawl is 
narrowly averted.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 23 September 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A21' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas</xref>, [20 September 1858], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:201-2.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-21'>Tuesday, September 21, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arrives on the "six o'clock train from the West" in preparation for a speech he is
    scheduled to give the next day. "A large crowd" accompanies Lincoln as he makes his way by
    carriage from the depot to the home of Dr. William Fithian. In response to the prompts of the
    crowd, numbering around two thousand, Lincoln makes a few remarks to them from Dr. Fithian's
    balcony. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 24 September 1858,
    2:3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-22'>Wednesday, September 22, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks. "We had a fine and altogether satisfactory meeting," 
he writes next day.
<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%3A22' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Norman B. Judd</xref>, 23 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:202.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-23'>Thursday, September 23, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville,
  IL</place> and <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Before leaving town,
  Lincoln writes Judd suggesting German speaker be sent to Vermilion County. "I
  believe we have got the gentleman, unless they overcome us by fraudulent
  voting. . . . How can we prevent 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=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A22' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Norman B. Judd</xref>, 23 September 1858,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:202.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> He reaches
  Urbana about 3, while Douglas is speaking, and is escorted to Mr. Bradley's
  residence, where many visit him. "As I write," correspondent says, "the
  Danville band and the Urbana band are giving him a fine serenade, and hundreds
  of Republicans, many of them old Henry Clay and Webster Whigs, are in
  procession." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 27 September
  1858.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-24'>Friday, September 24, 1858.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>Lincoln is one of the speakers for the evening at an event held at the Evart House in East
    Urbana. He "occupied about twenty minutes in explaining 'a house divided against itself cannot
    stand.'" William Bross, one of the owners of the <ital>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</ital>,
    follows Lincoln on the program. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Daily Press and Tribune</title> (IL), 28
     September 1858, 2:4.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-25'>Saturday, September 25, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns Saturday evening. Learning of his arrival, Republican 
Clay Club serenades him. Lincoln appears and thanks his friends "for 
this renewed manifestation of their regard for the principles he 
defends." He retires amid "deafening cheers," followed by an old 
friend, Henry Chew, who tells him of his need for furniture to begin 
housekeeping and lack of money. Lincoln writes note saying that if 
anyone will give Chew $25 worth of furniture, and Chew does not pay 
by January 1, 1858, Lincoln will. He is obliged to do so in February 
1859.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 27 September 1858; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A24' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to a Serenade at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 25 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:203; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Statement Concerning Henry Chew</xref>, 25 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:202-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys five pounds of coffee ($1).
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>]
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-27'>Monday, September 27, 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>
At 7 A.M. procession forms on town square and escorts Lincoln to 
Great Western station. Train reaches Jacksonville at 11. Besides 
Springfield delegation, many are present from Cass and Scott 
counties. In afternoon, following F. P. Blair Jr. of St. Louis, 
Lincoln speaks.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 28 September 1858, 29 September 1858; Chicago Tribune, 1 October 1858; Jacksonville Sentinel, 1 October 1858.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln finds time to write defendants' answer in <name type='case' key='L00958'>Mershon v. Oliver &amp; Milner</name>, Logan County case. He signs "Lincoln &amp; Parks p.d.," and evidently mails document to Samuel Parks.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-28'>Tuesday, September 28, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.6167, -90.4500' teiForm='name'>Winchester, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Large delegation goes from Jacksonville to Winchester. Lincoln is 
late, but overtakes escort. "His horses were white with sweat and he 
and his friends were black with dust." Lincoln speaks at meeting west 
of town, and barbecue follows.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 2 October 1858; ISLA&#8212;Statement of E. F. Lomelino, Ms.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes original verse in autograph album of Rosa Haggard, daughter 
of Winchester hotel proprietor.
<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%3A25' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Verses: To Rosa Haggard</xref>, 28 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:203.</bibl>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-29'>Wednesday, September 29, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.6167, -90.4500' teiForm='name'>Winchester, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln spends day in office of John Moses, going over several 
volumes of "Congressional Globe" which Moses has indexed. In evening 
he speaks at court house.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Moses, "Lincoln at Winchester," Ms. Chicago Tribune, 5 October 1858.</bibl>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-09-30'>Thursday, September 30, 1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.6167, -90.4500' teiForm='name'>Winchester, IL</place> and <place key='39.6000, -90.8000' teiForm='name'>Pittsfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Before leaving hotel Lincoln composes verse for Linnie Haggard and writes
  it in her autograph album. Winchester Republicans escort him to Florence on
  Illinois River, where party from Pittsfield meets him. He is taken to residence
  of Col. Ross, east of town, where he spends night. <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%3A26' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Verses:
  To Linnie Haggard</xref>, 30 September 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:204; ISLA&#8212;Statement of W. C.
  Dickson, 5 August 1928, Ms.</bibl> 
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