<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-01'>Tuesday, January 1, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Many visitors call at Abraham Lincoln home. When one guest gives 
evidence of staying indefinitely, Lincoln appeals to group of 
Springfield young men to take him home.
<bibl default='NO'>Paul M. Angle, <title>Lincoln 1854-1861: Being the Day-By-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1933), 366.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-02'>Wednesday, January 2, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
["It seems Messrs. Lincoln and (Sen. Hannibal) Hamlin (Vice 
President-elect) have both received anonymous letters threatening 
violent opposition to their inauguration."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 2 January 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-03'>Thursday, January 3, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Sen. Simon Cameron (Pa.), candidate for Republican 
nomination in 1860: "Since seeing you things have developed which 
make it impossible for me to take you into the cabinet. . . . I 
suggest that you write me declining the appointment, in which case I 
do not object to its being known that it was tendered you."
<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%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 3 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:169-70.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Apparently telegraphs Cameron letter is in mail.
<bibl default='NO'>Cameron to Lincoln, 5 January 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sen. William H. Seward (N.Y.), leader of Republican party: "It 
seems to me the inaugeration [<uLine>sic</uLine>] is not the most 
dangerous point for us. Our adversaries have us more clearly at 
disadvantage, on the second Wednesday of February, when the votes 
should be officially counted. . . . I think it is best for me not to 
attempt appearing in Washington till the result of that ceremony is 
known."
<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%3A266' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 3 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:170-71.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Grants interview to Jeriah Bonham, owner-editor, Chicago "Farmer's Advocate."
<bibl default='NO'>Jeriah Bonham, <title>Fifty Years' Recollections with Observations and Reflections on Historical Events, giving Sketches of Eminent Citizens&#8212;their Lives and Public Services</title> (Peoria, IL: Franks, 1883), 184.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-04'>Friday, January 4, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen.-elect Salmon P. Chase (Ohio), former governor of Ohio and 
candidate for Republican nomination in 1860, arrives in Springfield. 
"He comes by invitation of the President and will probably be 
tendered the Secretaryship of State."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 5 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After interview with Lincoln Chase writes Cong. Elihu B. Washburne 
(Ill.), friend of Lincoln: "It is a mistaken supposition that Mr. 
Lincoln has as yet tendered me the Treasury Dept."
<bibl default='NO'>Chase to Washburne, 14 January 1861, Elihu B. Washburne, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-05'>Saturday, January 5, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen.-elect Chase (Ohio) and former Cong. Amos Tuck (N.H.) have long 
interview with Lincoln, presumably about cabinet appointments.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 7 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Another visitor, an old man from Mississippi dressed in homespun, 
expresses wish that every man in South could talk face to face with 
President-elect.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 7 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-06'>Sunday, January 6, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Early in morning Lincoln calls on former Lt. Gov.
  Gustave Koerner (Ill.), still in bed at hotel. Soon Lincoln returns with Norman
  B. Judd, Chicago Republican, to talk over appointment of Sen. Cameron (Pa.) to
  cabinet. Lincoln is "very much distressed." Koerner and Judd oppose
  appointment, but Lincoln seems to think it necessary. <bibl default='NO'>T. J. McCormack,
  ed., <title>Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896</title>, 2 vols. (Cedar
  Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1909), 2:114.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Mr. and
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Gov. Chase of Ohio" attend
  church service. <bibl default='NO'>Harry E. Pratt, <title>Concerning Mr. Lincoln, in which
  Abraham Lincoln is Pictured as He Appeared to Letter Writers of his
  Time</title> (Springfield, IL: 1944), 35.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-07'>Monday, January 7, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Sen. Lyman Trumbull (Ill.): "Gen. C. [Cameron] has not 
been offered the Treasury, and, I think, will not be. It seems to me 
not only highly proper, but a <uLine>necessity,</uLine> that Gov. 
Chase shall take that place. . . . But then comes the fierce 
opposition to his having any Department."
<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%3A267' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 7 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:171.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
John A. Clark, Illinois political friend of Cong. Washburne (Ill.), 
calls on Lincoln, who "seems as calm and serene as a summer morning."
<bibl default='NO'>Clark to Washburne, 9 January 1861, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Dr. Charles H. Ray, editor, Chicago "Tribune," visits briefly with 
Lincoln and is "interrupted by a visitor" before stating purpose of 
call.
<bibl default='NO'>Ray to Washburne, 7 January 1861, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $20 from Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance 
Company. Writes check for $10.97 to Bressmer, McQuinton &amp; 
Matheny, dry goods.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[unless otherwise stated, citations of this author are to this work].
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-08'>Tuesday, January 8, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Iowa delegation urges Lincoln to appoint as postmaster general Col. 
Fitz-Henry Warren, assistant editor, New York "Tribune."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 9 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives former Cong. Tuck (N.H.), who is interested in 
appointment to collectorship in Boston.
<bibl default='NO'>Tuck to Chase, 14 January 1861, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-09'>Wednesday, January 9, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Illinois Legislature re-elects Lyman Trumbull U.S. Senator. "Hon. 
Abraham Lincoln, Governor Wood, the State officers, the Supreme 
Judges, and many other distinguished personages had seats within the 
bar."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 10 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $20.97 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-10'>Thursday, January 10, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Seward (N.Y.) accepts secretaryship of state. "The republicans 
are in ecstacies. . . . Mr. Lincoln takes the news from Charleston 
[firing on "Star of the West," chartered side-wheel steamer] very 
gravely. It is thought that the Rubicon is now crossed."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 11 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by brother-in-law, Clark M. Smith, and 
former Cong. Tuck (N.H.), leaves for New York to make purchases for 
White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Helm, <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 153.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $24.05 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-11'>Friday, January 11, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In a letter he marks,
  "Confidential," President-Elect Lincoln writes to Republican Congressman James
  T. Hale, of Pennsylvania. Hale and other border-state representatives seek to
  appease the states considering secession. Lincoln cites his recent election
  victory and vows not to "surrender to those we have beaten." Lincoln adds,
  "They now have the Constitution, under which we have lived over seventy years,
  and acts of Congress of their own framing, with no prospect of their being
  changed; and they can never have a more shallow pretext for breaking up the
  government, or extorting a compromise, than now." <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%3A268' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James T. Hale</xref>, 11 January 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:172.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Acknowledges
  receipt from Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, general in chief of the army, of
  correspondence and notes "concerning various military movements, suggested by
  yourself." <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%3A269' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 11 January 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:172-73.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-12'>Saturday, January 12, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> An impromptu presentation of handsome, richly
  ornamented, gold-headed cane is made to Lincoln this morning in business office
  of St. Nicholas Hotel by returned Californian, an old friend and client. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 14 January 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln is called upon
  by old Indiana farmer named Jones, for whom 30 years ago he worked as common
  farmhand at $1 per day. <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 14 January 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  In letter to Sen. Seward (N.Y.) Lincoln reveals that he is trying to get at
  least one Southerner in cabinet; also informs him that there is "scarcely any
  objection" to him as secretary of state, but that there will be trouble over
  "every other Northern cabinet appointment." <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%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 12 January 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:173.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Hawkins
  Taylor, Republican from Keokuk, Iowa, shows Lincoln postscript of letter from
  Col. Warren supporting Sen. Cameron (Pa.) for cabinet. <bibl default='NO'>Taylor to Cameron,
  12 January 1861, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> arrives in New
  York City in company with Philip Dorsheimer, treasurer of state of New York.
  Stays at Astor House. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15 January 1861.</bibl>] </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln withdraws $3.30 from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-13'>Sunday, January 13, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Sen. Cameron (Pa.) conciliatory letter: "I now think I 
will not definitely fix upon any appointment for Pennsylvania until I 
reach Washington."
<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%3A271' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 13 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:174-75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
James Appleton, Jr., of Boston, Sen.-elect Edgar Cowan (Pa.), and 
John P. Sanderson of Pennsylvania, state senator and confidential 
friend of Cameron, arrive late this evening to visit Lincoln 
regarding cabinet appointment for Cameron.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-14'>Monday, January 14, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. John E. Wool, commanding Dept. of the East, to 
thank him for his "patriotic and generous letter."
<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%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John E. Wool</xref>, 14 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:175.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Former Cong. Richard Yates (Ill.) is inaugurated governor of 
Illinois. His inaugural address, "although delivered under the very 
eyes of the President-elect . . . is so radical as to make it 
altogether improbable that it has his sanction."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 14 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $30 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-15'>Tuesday, January 15, 1861[?].</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
["When <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> was on her way home from New York, attended by 
her son Robert, she found herself at Buffalo, without a pass over the 
State Line Railroad; no provisions had been made for that part of her 
trip from New York City to Springfield. After <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> had taken 
her seat at Buffalo Bob entered the office of R. N. Brown, esq., the 
superintendent of the State Line Railroad, and said: 'My name is Bob 
Lincoln; I'm a son of Old Abe&#8212;the old woman is in the cars 
raising h-ll about her passes&#8212;I wish you would go and attend to 
her.' Mr. Brown allowed <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Bob to ride over his 
railroad free of charge."
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-16'>Wednesday, January 16, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> New York delegation consisting
  of George Opdyke, New York merchant, Hiram Barney, New York attorney, and Judge
  John T. Hogeboom consults with Lincoln on cabinet appointments for Sen. Cameron
  (Pa.) and Sen.-elect Chase (Ohio). They tell Lincoln "a thousand truths which
  he ought to know." <bibl default='NO'>Ray to Washburne, 16 January 1861, Elihu B. Washburne
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln adjusts
  his account of purchases for 1860 with brother-in-law, Ninian W. Edwards, and
  his store, Smith, Edwards &amp; Co., against a loan of approximately $2,587 and
  interest at 10 per cent, which Lincoln made to them in 1852. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 75-76.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-17'>Thursday, January 17, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln announces selection of Judge Edward Bates of Missouri and 
Sen. Seward (N.Y.) for cabinet. No further selections will be made 
until he arrives in Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[A Republican who has just returned from Maryland reports that 10,000 
men have been secretly organized in Maryland and Virginia to prevent 
inauguration of Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 January 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-18'>Friday, January 18, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"A strong California delegation, headed by D. Crittenden, of San 
Francisco, is laying close siege to the President-elect."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 19 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-19'>Saturday, January 19, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In evening Cong. William Kellogg (Ill.), member of House Committee of 
Thirty-three, arrives in Springfield to confer with Lincoln. "His 
object is supposed to be in reference to a compromise of the national 
difficulties."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 22 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Matias Romero, Mexican charg&#233; d'Affaires in Washington, calls 
upon Lincoln at home.
<bibl default='NO'>Ernest G. Hildner, Jr., "The Mexican Envoy Visits Lincoln," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 6 (September 1950):184.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $200 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $31.25.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-20'>Sunday, January 20, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cong. Kellogg (Ill.) and Lincoln spend most of day together.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 21 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-21'>Monday, January 21, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Representative William Kellogg (Ill.) still in Springfield, seeking to ascertain how 
far Lincoln will go by way of compromise on slavery question.
<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%3A274' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks Concerning Concessions to Secession</xref>, [c. 19-21 January 1861], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:175-76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In addition, two delegations are in town&#8212;one from New York on 
behalf of Sen. Cameron (Pa.), the other from Indiana to push claims 
of former Cong. Caleb B. Smith (Ind.).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 22 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Cameron to visit him again, then apparently neglects 
to mail letter.
<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%3A276' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 21 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:177.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
M. Romero again calls on Lincoln, this time to take leave.
<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%3A278' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Matias Romero</xref>, 21 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:177-78.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
["Mr. L has undertaken his Cabinet without consulting me. For the 
present I shall be content to leave the responsibility on his own 
broad shoulders."
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Seward to Weed, 21 January 1861, Thurlow Weed Papers, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.</bibl>].
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-22'>Tuesday, January 22, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
A committee from Indiana Legislature brings invitation to Lincoln to 
pass through Indianapolis on way to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 28 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln acknowledges receipt of "a very substantial and handsome 
overcoat," gift of Isaac Fenno, clothing dealer of Boston.
<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%3A281' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Fenno</xref>, 22 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:179.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-23'>Wednesday, January 23, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> John G. Nicolay, private
  secretary to President-elect, writes Gen. Edwin C. Wilson on Lincoln's
  instructions, expressing satisfaction at assurance that militia of Pennsylvania
  is ready to come to support of Union "in the event of trouble or danger." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Wilson, 23 January 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Francis P. Blair, Jr.,
  Congressman-elect (Mo.), visits Springfield to press claim of his brother
  Montgomery to cabinet appointment. Blair says: "The day of compromise is gone,
  and the day of fighting come." <bibl default='NO'>Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin,
  <title>Lincoln and the Patronage</title> (New York: Columbia University Press,
  1943), 38; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 24 January 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Dr.
  Gilt of Virginia calls on Lincoln on behalf of Cassius M. Clay, Kentucky
  abolitionist, and Judge John C. Underwood, Virginia unionist, relative to
  cabinet posts. <bibl default='NO'>Blair to Blair, 24 January 1861, Gist-Blair Family Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln deposits $165.10
  in Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 164.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Waits in vain at station for arrival of
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and their eldest son Robert on
  night train from east. <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of
  '61</title>, 54-55.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-24'>Thursday, January 24, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
George G. Fogg, secretary of Republican National Executive Committee, 
returning to Springfield monopolizes Lincoln's time throughout day. 
His visit relates to selection of New England member of cabinet and 
action of Republican congressmen upon compromise propositions.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 25 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Committee of Central Republican Club of Philadelphia visits Lincoln 
to urge Sen. Cameron's (Pa.) appointment to cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Smith to Cameron, 24 January 1861, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln replies: "I have every reason to hope that your wishes will 
be gratified."
<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%3A283' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks to a Pennsylvania Delegation</xref>, 24 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:179-81.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Again waits in vain at station for arrival of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Robert.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 54-55.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-25'>Friday, January 25, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"It is evident," writes the "Herald" correspondent, "that influences 
are now at work here to commit Mr. Lincoln on the border State 
propositions; but he as yet manifests no signs of yielding."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 26 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln is delighted by return of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Robert from East; 
he has been expecting them for three days.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 54-55.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits $136 in Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-26'>Saturday, January 26, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln determines to leave for Washington on February 11, 1861.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 27 January 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes committee of Indiana Legislature accepting invitation 
to visit Indianapolis, and names February 12, 1861 as date.
<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%3A284' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to R. A. Cameron, Walter March, and David C. Branham</xref>, 26 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:181.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Withdraws $5.25 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-27'>Sunday, January 27, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln publicly designates February 11, 1861 as day of departure for 
Washington. He also makes known desire for "the utmost privacy" 
during remainder of stay in Springfield.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 28 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He plans to "go via Lafayette to Indianapolis, where he will receive 
the hospitalities of Indiana Legislature; thence he will proceed, 
probably by way of Cincinnati to Columbus, Cleveland, Buffalo, and 
Albany. From Albany he intends to make for Harrisburg direct, thence 
to Baltimore and Washington; but a tour to New York and Philadelphia 
is not impossible."
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 29 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-28'>Monday, January 28, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> "The first draft of the Inaugural Message is now
  being made by the President-elect, . . . It will not be finished until after
  consultation with the Republican leaders in Washington. . . . No further
  invitations will be issued to prominent politicians to visit the
  President-elect, and none are desired here. The Cabinet will be completed in
  Washington." <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 29 January 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  invites his cousin, John Hanks, to "go along" on visit to Coles County, Ill.,
  January 30, 1861. <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%3A285' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Hanks</xref>, 28 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:181.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee
  representing citizens of Indianapolis calls upon Lincoln to present transcript
  of resolutions inviting him to visit city en route to Washington. The same day
  Lincoln writes committee accepting invitation and setting February 12, 1861 as
  date. <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%3A286' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James Sulgrove, Eric Locke, William Wallace, and John F.
  Wood</xref>, 28 January 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:181-82.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Withdraws $40.90 from Springfield Marine Bank. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  175.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-29'>Tuesday, January 29, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Editorial that seems to be authoritative appears in Springfield 
"Illinois State Journal": "Mr. Lincoln is not committed to the Border 
State Compromise, nor to any other. He stands immovably on the 
Chicago Platform, and he will neither acquiesce in, nor counsel his 
friends to acquiesce in, any compromise that surrenders one iota of 
it." Despite Lincoln's desire for privacy there is "a perfect 
inundation of Chicago politicians."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 30 January 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $25.40 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-30'>Wednesday, January
  30, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the morning, President-Elect Lincoln departs
  Springfield on the Great Western Railroad. He is traveling to visit his
  stepmother Sarah Bush Lincoln, "who resides near Charleston, in Coles county."
  A newspaper reports that Lincoln "expects to return" to Springfield on the
  evening of February 1.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois Journal</title> (Springfield), 31
  January 1861, 2:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Arrives Charleston on freight train shortly
  after 6 P.M., having changed trains at Mattoon. <bibl default='NO'>Charles H. Coleman,
  <title>Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois</title> (New Brunswick, NJ:
  Scarecrow Press, 1955), 191.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>In the evening, Lincoln arrives in
  Charleston, where he spends the night at home of Illinois State Senator Thomas
  A. Marshall. Many friends visit with Lincoln during his stay. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title> (Springfield), 2 February 1861, 2:3;
  Charles H. Coleman, <title>Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois</title>
  (New Brunswick, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 209-10.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-01-31'>Thursday, January 31, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place> and <place key='39.5500, -88.2333' teiForm='name'>Coles County, IL</place>
         </dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln rides to stepmother's home, where he spends day. "While there 
he paid a visit to the grave of his father. In the evening he rode 
back to town, in company with his aged relative, and at the urgent 
request of the citizens of the place held an impromptu reception at 
one of the public halls." Though called upon, Lincoln declines to 
speak.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 2 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"He stated that the time for a public definition of the policy of his 
administration had not come, and that he could but express his 
gratification at seeing so many of his friends and give them a hearty 
greeting."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 4 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"[William H.] Herndon [Lincoln's law partner in Springfield] records 
that on this visit, besides seeing his stepmother, Lincoln met 
members of the Johnston and Hanks families, visited his father's 
grave, gave directions for a suitable stone marker, and made a brief 
public address at Charleston."
<bibl default='NO'>James G. Randall, <title>Mr. Lincoln</title>, edited by Richard N. Current (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1957), 130.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>