<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-02'>Thursday, August 2, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes letters of introduction of Judge David Davis, for 
Davis to use while touring east, especially Pennsylvania, on campaign 
business.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1860-08-03' TEIform='date'>Friday,
  August 3, 1860.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln writes to the Illinois Republican
  Party central committee chair, Norman B. Judd, of Chicago. On August 8, Judd
  will be in Springfield to attend a rally to celebrate Lincoln's nomination.
  Lincoln writes, "It is arranged that you are to make our house your home, while
  here...on the 8th. Please do not disturb the arrangement, but come right along,
  upon your arrival here." <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Norman B. Judd, 3 August
  1860, <title>CW</title>, 10:58;
  <xref url='http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A116'>Remarks
  at a Republican Rally, Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 8 August 1860,
  <title>CW</title>, 4:91-92.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-04'>Saturday, August 4, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to his old friend Simeon Francis, now living in 
Oregon. He has received three letters from Francis, unanswered 
earlier because he had not time "to write at length." Lincoln gives 
personal and political news. "We had a storm here last night which 
did considerable damage. . . . I hesitate to say it, but it really 
appears now, as if the success of the Republican ticket is 
inevitable."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A114' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simeon Francis</xref>, 4 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:89-90.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-06'>Monday, August 6, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Simon Cameron that Lincoln's tariff notes David Davis 
has shown in Pennsylvania must not "get into the news-papers."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A115' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 6 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:90-91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes $5 check to "Wife."
<bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-07'>Tuesday, August 7, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Correspondent of New York "Herald" calls on Lincoln at his home and 
finds Lincoln, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Willie, Tad, Mrs. Judd, and E. B. 
Washburne. "The ladies were especially entertaining, while 'Old Abe' 
and your correspondent took a chair together and talked upon almost 
every topic now attracting the attention of the public." Lincoln 
indiscreetly mentions his reply to Haycraft's letter: "Would not the 
people lynch me?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 13 August 1860.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-08-08'>Wednesday, August 8, 1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Illinois Republicans hold immense rally to
  celebrate Lincoln's nomination. Thousands attend. Giant morning procession
  passes Lincoln residence; he reviews it from his doorway. In afternoon there is
  speaking from five stands at fair grounds. Lincoln appears, declines to make
  speech, and escapes on horseback. More speeches are made in evening at Wigwam
  and state house. Lincoln endorses pardon petition of Buckner S. Morris to Gov.
  Wood. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 9 August 1860;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A116' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at a Republican Rally, Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 8 August 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:91-92;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A117' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement:
  Buckner S. Morris to John Wood concerning Pardon of Patrick Cunningham</xref>,
  [8 August 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:92.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-09'>Thursday, August 9, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
O. H. Browning records in his diary: "In forenoon called at Lincolns 
and spent an hour, with him, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> &amp; Mrs. Judd&#8212;A 
great many people still in town."
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-10'>Friday, August 10, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Cassius M. Clay proposing change in his Illinois 
speaking engagements. "As to the inaugural, I have not yet commenced 
getting it up; while it affords me great pleasure to be able to say 
the cliques have not yet commenced upon me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A118' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cassius M. Clay</xref>, 10 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:92-93.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-11'>Saturday, August 11, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln acknowledges letter and newspaper clipping from M. B. Miner.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A119' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to M. B. Miner</xref>, 11 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:93.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-13'>Monday, August 13, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
J. Henry Brown, Pennsylvania artist, arrives with letter of 
introduction from John M. Read, Pennsylvania Republican. Lincoln 
consents to sit for miniature painted on ivory. "We walked together. 
. . ," wrote Brown, "to a daguerrean establishment. I had a half 
dozen of ambrotypes taken of him before I could get one to suit me."
<bibl default='NO'>InFtwL&#8212;<title>Brown Journal</title>, Ms., Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln credits promissory notes of A. and J. Haines of Pekin with 
$50 payment, and deposits money in his bank account.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Lincoln Estate Inventory; Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes to "Mrs. Snedeker" acknowledging letter and box of peaches 
from "Daughters of Abraham."
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by Mrs. Eugene McCoil, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-14'>Tuesday, August 14, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To T. A. Cheney, Lincoln writes: "I would cheerfully answer your 
questions in regard to the Fugitive Slave law, were it not that I 
consider it would be both imprudent, and contrary to the reasonable 
expectation of friends for me to write, or speak anything upon 
doctrinal points now. Besides this, my published speeches contain 
nearly all I could willingly say. <uLine>Justice</uLine> and 
<uLine>fairness</uLine> to <uLine>all</uLine>, is the utmost I have 
said, or will say." He writes three other political letters. He asks 
George G. Fogg, secretary of Republican National Committee, how 
things look, and if he should accept invitation to Springfield, Mass. 
horse show. Samuel Galloway of Ohio he invites to visit him, unless 
time so spent would injure Galloway's congressional campaign. He 
writes to James E. Harvey of New York briefly on Republican 
jealousies there: <uLine>"Justice and fairness to all</uLine>." He 
endorses pardon petition of Thomas Patterson, recently convicted of 
manslaughter in Vermilion 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=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A120' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to T. Apolion Cheney</xref>, 14 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:93; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A122' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Fogg</xref>, 14 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:94; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A123' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway</xref>, 14 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:94; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A124' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James E. Harvey</xref>, 14 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:94-95; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A121' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: David Davis to John Wood Concerning Pardon of Thomas Patterson</xref>, 14 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:93.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-08-15'>Wednesday, August 15,
  1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Republican
  presidential nominee Lincoln writes to John B. Fry, of New York. Lincoln
  confides that many Southerners have written to him with "assurances...that in
  no probable event will there be any very formidable effort to break up the
  Union." Lincoln reasons, "The people of the South have too much of good sense,
  and good temper, to attempt the ruin of the government, rather than see it
  administered as it was administered by the men who made it. At least, so I hope
  and believe." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>abraham lincoln to john b. fry</xref>, 15 August
  1860, <title>CW</title>, 4:95.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>To William Fithian of Danville he
  appeals for help in Vermilion legislative district. "To lose Trumbull's
  re-election next winter would be a great disaster." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William Fithian</xref>, 15 August 1860,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:95.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-16'>Thursday, August 16, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
New York "Herald" has written up Lincoln's remark about lynching in 
Kentucky if he should visit there. He writes George G. Fogg to have 
inserted in paper anonymous correction he has drafted, and he writes 
Haycraft to forestall in Kentucky undesired repercussions from 
"Herald" article.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A127' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Fogg</xref>, 16 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:96-97; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A128' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Haycraft</xref>, 16 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sits for J. Henry Brown, artist, in Capitol library.
<bibl default='NO'>InFtwL&#8212;<title>Brown Journal</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-17'>Friday, August 17, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Somewhat uneasy about New York, Lincoln writes to Thurlow Weed. 
"There will be the most extraordinary effort ever made, to carry 
New-York for Douglas. You, and all others who write me from your 
state, think the effort can not succeed; and I hope you are right; 
still it will require close watching, and great effort on the other 
side." He asks Senator James F. Simmons if Rhode Island is safe, 
having received letter about money pouring in for Douglas.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A130' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 17 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:97-98; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A129' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James F. Simmons</xref>, 17 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:97.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-18'>Saturday, August 18, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln acknowledges book from C. H. Fisher. "While I have not yet 
found time to examine it, I doubt not I shall find much pleasure in 
its perusal."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A131' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles H. Fisher</xref>, 18 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:98.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-20'>Monday, August 20, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln again sits, in Representatives Hall, for J. Henry Brown.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, <title>Lincoln in Portraiture</title> (New York: Press of the Pioneer, 1935), 109-10; InFtwL&#8212;<title>Brown Journal</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-22'>Wednesday, August 22, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln declines invitation to horse show at Springfield, Mass. "For 
reasons not necessary to be mentioned, I am constrained to decline 
the honor which you so kindly tender me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A132' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George Bliss and Others</xref>, 22 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He sits for J. Henry Brown.
<bibl default='NO'>InFtwL&#8212;<title>Brown Journal</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-23'>Thursday, August 23, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Still uneasy about New York "Herald" article, Lincoln writes 
Haycraft: "My only object was to assure you that I had not, as 
represented by the Herald correspondent, charged you with an attempt 
to inveigle me into Kentucky to do me violence. I believe no such 
thing of you, or of Kentuckians generally; and I dislike to be 
represented to them as slandering them in that way." He invites 
Robert C. Schenck of Ohio to campaign in Illinois. <uLine>"We really want you</uLine>." 
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A133' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Haycraft</xref>, [23 August 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:99; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A134' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 23 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:99-100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-24'>Friday, August 24, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes long autobiographical letter to his relative John 
Hanks of Macon County, who started "Rail Splitter" movement at 
Decatur convention. John's brother Charles has claimed Decatur rails 
were fakes. "Don't let this letter be made public."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A135' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Hanks</xref>, 24 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:100-1.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He gives fourth sitting to J. Henry Brown.
<bibl default='NO'>InFtwL&#8212;<title>Brown Journal</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-08-25'>Saturday, August 25,
  1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln deposits
  $300. <bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>For a "fifth" and final time,
  Republican presidential candidate Lincoln poses for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  artist John H. Brown, who is in Springfield, Illinois to paint "on ivory,"
  Lincoln's "miniature likeness." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice and Lincoln
  ally John M. Read commissioned the painting because he was "disgusted with the
  horrible caricatures of Mr. Lincoln which he had seen." Brown recalled,
  "[Lincoln's] true character only shines out when in an animated conversation,
  or when telling an amusing tale, of which he is very fond." <bibl default='NO'>R. Gerald
  McMurtry, <title>Beardless Portraits of Abraham Lincoln Painted from
  Life</title> (Fort Wayne, IN: Allen County Historical Society, 1962), 26-35;
  Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely, Jr., <title>The Lincoln
  Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print</title> (New York: Charles
  Scribner's Sons, 1984), 58, 61; Michael Burlingame, <title>With Lincoln in the
  White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay,
  1860-1865</title> (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), 4-5;
  Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, <title>Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life
  and Letters</title> (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 65; <xref from='ROOT' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>abraham
  lincoln to john m. read</xref>, 27 August 1860, <title>CW</title>, 4:102.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-26'>Sunday, August 26, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln attends church, where J. Henry Brown sees him. "I hardly know 
how to express the strength of my personal regard for Mr. Lincoln," 
writes Brown. "I never saw a man for whom I so soon formed an 
attachment. I like him much, and agree with him in all things but his 
politics. He is kind and very sociable; immensely popular among the 
people of Springfield. . . . There are so many hard lines in his face 
that it becomes a mask of the inner man. His true character only 
shines out when in an animated conversation, or when telling an 
amusing tale, of which he is very fond. He is said to be a homely 
man; I do not think so."
<bibl default='NO'>InFtwL&#8212;<title>Brown Journal</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-27'>Monday, August 27, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gives his opinion of "<uLine>supposed</uLine> speech of Mr. 
Dallas to Lord Brougham" which correspondent sent. He cannot agree 
that slavery is a necessity imposed by Negro race. "That the going 
many thousand miles, seizing a set of savages, bringing them here, 
and making slaves of them, is a <uLine>necessity</uLine> imposed on 
<uLine>us</uLine> by <uLine>them</uLine>, involves a species of logic 
to which my mind will scarcely assent." He thanks Amory Holbrook of 
Oregon for his political news, and tells Judge John M. Read of 
Pennsylvania that J. Henry Brown's miniature is excellent. "To my 
unpracticed eye, it is without fault."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A136' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles H. Fisher</xref>, 27 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:101; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A137' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Amory Holbrook</xref>, 27 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:101; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A138' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Read</xref>, 27 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:102.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-29'>Wednesday, August 29, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Still concerned about New York "Herald" story, Lincoln writes to 
Fogg: "You have done precisely right in that matter with the Herald. 
Do nothing further about it. Although it wrongs me, and annoys me 
some, I prefer letting it run its course, to getting into the papers 
over my own name." As to Republican prospects, "the whole field 
appears reasonably well."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A139' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Fogg</xref>, 29 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:102.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1860-08-30'>Thursday, August 30,
  1860.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln sends his
  autograph to C. H. Brown. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>Republican
  presidential nominee Lincoln writes to Pennsylvania politician and newspaper
  publisher Alexander K. McClure, who frequently updated Lincoln about the
  Republicans' prospects in Pennsylvania and other eastern states. Lincoln
  expresses concerns and seeks clarification regarding some recent McClure
  communications, and writes, "Neither [of the two recent letters]...bears quite
  so hopeful a tone as your former letters. When you say you are
  <uLine>organizing</uLine> every election district, do you mean...that you are
  'canvassing'&#8212;'counting noses?.'" <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander K.
  McClure, 30 August 1860, Henry Horner Lincoln Collection, IHi, Springfield,
  IL.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-08-31'>Friday, August 31, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln tries to smooth factional differences among Pennsylvania 
Republicans. To John M. Pomeroy, who wrote of local troubles, he 
replies: "I am slow to listen to criminations among friends. . . . My 
sincere wish is that both sides will allow by-gones to be by-gones, 
and look to the present &amp; future only." He also writes friendly 
notes to Zachariah Chandler of Michigan and Benjamin F. James of 
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=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A142' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Pomeroy</xref>, 31 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:103-4; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A140' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Zachariah Chandler</xref>, 31 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:102-3; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A141' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. James</xref>, 31 August 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:103.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>