January 23, 1861

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            <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> 
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         <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> 
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