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Friday, February 1, 1861. En route and Springfield, IL. Browse Month	Lincoln returns home, probably in late afternoon, after seeing stepmother in Coles County, Ill. Charles H. Coleman, Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois (New Brunswick, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 210. In writing Sen. Seward (N.Y.) of meeting with Cong. Kellogg (Ill.) on January 21, 1861, he states: "On the territorial question—that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices,—I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation." Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, 1 February 1861, CW, 4:183. Receives bronze medal of Henry Clay sent by Daniel Ullmann, New York attorney. Abraham Lincoln to Daniel Ullmann, 1 February 1861, CW, 4:183-84. Accepts invitation of committee of citizens of Cincinnati to stop on way to Washington. Baltimore Sun, 4 February 1861; Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin Eggleston, Charles L. Moore, and A. McAlpin, 1 February 1861, CW, 4:182.
Saturday, February 2, 1861. Springfield, IL. Browse Month Revised Entry	Lincoln writes to the Louisville (Kentucky) Journal editor, George D. Prentice, who asked Lincoln to provide an advance copy of the inaugural address. Lincoln responds, "I have the document already blocked out; but in the now rapidly shifting scenes, I shall have to hold it subject to revision up to near the time of delivery." Abraham Lincoln to George D. Prentice, 2 February 1861, CW, 4:184.
Sunday, February 3, 1861. Springfield, IL. Browse Month	Lincoln interviews William Larimer, Jr., soldier and politician, and Mark W. Delahay, Kansas politician, who urge appointment of Sen. Cameron (Pa.) to cabinet. Larimer to Cameron, 6 February 1861, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Monday, February 4, 1861. Springfield, IL. Browse Month Revised Entry	President-elect receives delegation from Pennsylvania, which presses claims of former Gov. Andrew H. Reeder (Kansas Terr.), should Sen. Cameron (Pa.) withdraw from cabinet scramble. N.Y. Tribune, 5 February 1861. Lincoln writes to newspaper editor and political insider Thurlow Weed, of Albany, New York. Lincoln seeks to dispel the notion that he endorses a candidate to fill secretary-of-state nominee William Seward's U.S. Senate seat. Lincoln admits that he discussed the matter with a New York state legislator, "but always with an express protest that my name must not be used in the Senatorial election, if favor of, or against any one. Any other representation of me, is a misrepresentation." Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, 28 January 1861; David Davis to Abraham Lincoln, 2 February 1861, both in Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, 4 February 1861, CW, 4:185-86. Limits visiting hours from 3:30 until 5 P.M. Illinois State Journal, 4 February 1861. Suspends cabinet negotiations and intends to do so until he arrives in Washington. Villard, Eve of '61, 60. Accepts invitation of New York Legislature to pass through state en route to Washington. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan, 4 February 1861, CW, 4:185.
Tuesday, February 5, 1861. Springfield, IL Browse Month	Lincoln calls upon Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of New York "Tribune," presently on lecture tour, at Chenery House. They confer for several hours on government policy. Lloyd A. Dunlap, "President Lincoln and Editor Greeley," Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 5 (June 1948):96. Receives another Indiana delegation supporting former Cong. Smith (Ind.) for cabinet. N.Y. Tribune, 6 February 1861. Deposits $100 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $10. Pratt, Personal Finances, 164, 175. Writes check for $149. CW, 8:466.
Wednesday, February 6, 1861. Springfield, IL Browse Month Revised Entry	Lincoln accepts invitation of New Jersey Legislature to visit state capital on journey to Washington. Abraham Lincoln to Charles S. Olden, 6 February 1861, CW, 4:186. Accepts invitation of citizens of Albany, N.Y., to visit their city en route to inauguration. Washington Star, 6 February 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln (assisted by four of her sisters) hold farewell reception at home. Helm, Mary, 155-56. Prior to their departure for Washington, D. C., Lincoln and his wife Mary host a farewell "reception" at their home. A newspaper reports, "The levee lasted from seven to twelve o'clock in the evening, and the house thronged by thousands up to a late hour. Mr. Lincoln received the guests as they entered and were made known. They then passed on, and were introduced to Mrs. Lincoln, who stood near the center of the parlors, and who . . . acquitted herself most gracefully and admirably." Another reporter writes, "Behind [Lincoln] on the sofa were his two little boys, about eight and four years of age respectively, the youngest of whom was as noisy as a cub wolf. After a considerable time, the noise of the little urchin attracted the father's attention. Thereupon, turning about, and stooping down . . . he had some of the pleasantest words for the little fellow, that can be imagined. Thereafter there was no noise while I remained. Mrs. Lincoln, who is a squatty, pleasant little woman, receives her visitors with an easy gracefulness that makes all feel comfortable." Sun (Baltimore, MD), 8 February 1861, 2:3; Illinois Daily State Journal (Springfield), 9 February 1861, 2:3; Henry County Chronicle (Cambridge, IL), 26 February 1861, 2:3-5. "Reception announced for 7:00 to 12:00. Thousands came and it lasted longer." Henry B. Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 255-56. Lincoln deposits $642.91 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $392.12. Pratt, Personal Finances, 164, 175. Writes check for 50¢ in payment of taxes on Lincoln, Ill. lot. CW, 8:466.
Thursday, February 7, 1861. Springfield, IL. Browse Month	Lincoln invites Orville H. Browning, attorney who later succeeds Stephen A. Douglas in U.S. Senate, to accompany him to Washington. Browning agrees to go as far as Indianapolis. Browning, Diary. Declines invitation from people of Massachusetts to visit state for "want of time." Abraham Lincoln to John A. Andrew and the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 7 February 1861, CW, 4:186. Accepts invitation to visit Columbus, Ohio. Acknowledges invitation from citizens of Dayton, Ohio: "I will endeavor to pass through and at least bow to the friends there." Abraham Lincoln to William Dennison, 7 February 1861, CW, 4:186-87; Abraham Lincoln to John G. Lowe, Thomas A. Phillips, and W. H. Gillespie, 7 February 1861, CW, 4:187. Withdraws $104.70 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 175.
Friday, February 8, 1861. Springfield, IL. Browse Month	Lincoln accepts invitation of Pennsylvania Legislature to visit Harrisburg. Also accepts invitation to visit Cleveland, Ohio. Abraham Lincoln to Darwin A. Finney and Others, 8 February 1861, CW, 4:188; Abraham Lincoln to George B. Senter and Others, 8 February 1861, CW, 4:188. Member of Georgia Secession Convention tries unsuccessfully to exact from Lincoln positive committal on one of compromise propositions. Villard, Eve of '61, 64-65. Lincoln family vacates home on Eighth St. and occupies rooms in Chenery House. Henry B. Rankin, Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 258-59. Lincoln withdraws $17.50 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 175. Buys from Hartford Fire Insurance Co. insurance policy on house ($3,000), carriagehouse ($75), woodhouse and privy ($125) for premium of $24 per year. Pratt, Personal Finances, 70.
Saturday, February 9, 1861. Springfield, IL Browse Month	Lincoln and O. H. Browning discuss at Chenery House state of Union. Browning, Diary. Lincoln receives gift of suit of clothes manufactured by Titsworth & Brothers of Chicago, to be worn on March 4, 1861. Also receives whistle made from pig's tail. Villard, Eve of '61, 68-69. Carl Schurz, German refugee and political power, visits Lincoln briefly. Carl Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869, trans and ed. by Joseph Schafer (Madison, WI: n.p., 1928), 244. Notes representing loans to residents of Sangamon County, Ill., payable to Lincoln, are left, probably on this day, with Robert Irwin, Springfield banker, for safekeeping. Receipt for Notes Left with Robert Irwin for Collection, [9? February 1861], CW, 4:188-89. Lincoln deposits $75 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $68.04. Pratt, Personal Finances, 164, 175. Sells to Samuel H. Melvin, Springfield druggist, household furnishings worth $82.25. Receipt to Samuel H. Melvin, 9 February 1861, CW, 4:189.
Sunday, February 10, 1861. Springfield, IL. Browse Month Revised Entry	Lincoln spends day with Springfield friends. N.Y. Tribune, 12 February 1861. In late afternoon discusses unfinished lawsuits with W. H. Herndon at their offices and requests that office sign, "Lincoln and Herndon," remain and that Herndon conduct firm's business until Lincoln returns. They walk together until near Lincoln's home. Henry B. Rankin, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Putnam, 1916), 145, 220. The day before he departs for Washington, D. C., Lincoln meets with his law partner William H. Herndon in their office. The two men go "over the books" and make plans "for the completion of all unsettled and unfinished matters." Herndon recalls that Lincoln looks at the law partnership's "sign-board" and comments, "Let it hang there undisturbed." William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, 2 vols., (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902), 2:192-94. Tells Herndon he had not thought there would be need for farewell speech. Henry B. Rankin, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Putnam, 1916), 226. Visits Carl Schurz in his room for another conversation. Carl Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869, trans and ed. by Joseph Schafer (Madison, WI: n.p., 1928), 247.
Monday, February 11, 1861. Springfield, IL and Indianapolis, IN. Browse Month	At approximately 7:30 A.M. President-elect leaves Chenery House without Mrs. Lincoln for Great Western Railroad depot, to start trip to Washington. Washington Star, 12 February 1861; Thomas D. Jones, Memories of Lincoln (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934), 16; Monaghan, Diplomat, 28. Withdraws $400 from Springfield Marine Bank; deposits $82.25, payment by S. H. Melvin for certain household furniture. Pratt, Personal Finances, 164, 179. Shakes hands with friends as they file by. At 8 A.M. boards train and in response to demands of crowd (estimated at 1,000) speaks from rear platform: "My friends—No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. . . . I now leave, . . . with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. . . . Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you . . . I bid you an affectionate farewell." Later, with aid of John G. Nicolay, he writes out farewell remarks at request of reporter. Illinois State Journal, 13 February 1861; Villard, Eve of '61, 70-73; Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:190-91. Lincoln acknowledges greetings of people at number of stops during morning. At Decatur, Ill. moves rapidly through crowd at depot, shaking hands right and left. Illinois State Journal, 13 February 1861. Makes brief remarks at Tolono and Danville, Ill. Baltimore Sun, 13 February 1861; Remarks at Tolono, Illinois, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:191; Remarks at Danville, Illinois, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:191-92. At 12:30 P.M. train arrives at Indiana State Line where he is welcomed by committee of state legislature headed by Capt. Frederick Steele. Here Great Western joins Toledo and Wabash, and large numbers of Indiana politicians board train. At Lafayette, Ind., Lincoln says: "While some of us may differ in political opinions, still we are all united in one feeling for the Union. We all believe in the maintainance of the Union, of every star and every stripe of the glorious flag, and permit me to express the sentiment that upon the union of the States, there shall be between us no difference." Remarks at Indiana State Line, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:192; Speech at Lafayette, Indiana, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:192. Greets people at Thorntown and Lebanon, Ind. Every station along route has its crowd. Remarks at Thornton and Lebanon, Indiana, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:192-93. Arrives in Indianapolis at 5 P.M. At West Washington St. is officially welcomed by Gov. Oliver P. Morton (Ind.) and receives 34-gun salute. Washington Star, 13 February 1861. Lincoln replies: "To the salvation of this Union there needs but one single thing—the hearts of a people like yours. . . . my reliance will be placed upon you and the people of the United States— . . . It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me." Indianapolis Indiana State Guard, 16 February 1861; Reply to Oliver P. Morton at Indianapolis, Indiana, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:193-94. Leaves train for carriage, remains standing, and joins procession of 20,000, composed of both houses of legislature, public officers, municipal authorities, military, and firemen, to Bates House, where he stays overnight. From balcony he says: "The words 'coercion' and 'invasion' are in great use about these days. . . . Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, for instance, without the consent of her people, and in hostility against them, be coercion or invasion? . . . But if the Government, for instance, but simply insists upon holding its own forts, or retaking those forts which belong to it, or the enforcement of the laws of the United States . . . or even the withdrawal of the mails from those portions of the country where the mails themselves are habitually violated; would any or all of these things be coercion? . . . What is the particular sacredness of a State? . . . I am speaking of that assumed right of a State, as a primary principle, that the Constitution should rule all that is less than itself, and ruin all that is bigger than itself. But, I ask, wherein does consist that right? . . . I am deciding nothing, but simply giving something for you to reflect upon." Speech from the Balcony of the Bates House at Indianapolis, Indiana, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:194-96. At 7 P.M. begins greeting no fewer than 3,000 persons during impromptu reception in main parlor. Villard, Eve of '61, 75-79. Becomes excited over temporary loss of satchel containing copies of Inaugural Address. Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, 61-65. [See also February 15, 1861.]
Tuesday, February 12, 1861. Indianapolis, IN and Cincinnati, OH. Browse Month	After breakfasting at governor's mansion, Lincoln accompanies Gov. Morton (Ind.) to Capitol, where he exchanges greetings with members of legislature. William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 271-72. Shortly after 10 A.M. he appears for third time on balcony of Bates House and, in response to crowd which had gathered, makes practically same remarks as on previous evening. Remarks from the Balcony at Bates House, Indianapolis, Indiana, 11 February 1861, CW, 4:196; Villard, Eve of '61, 79. Welcomes Mrs. Lincoln and sons to presidential party and takes affectionate leave of old Illinois friends, Jesse K. Dubois and Ebenezer Peck. Washington Star, 14 February 1861; Villard, Eve of '61, 80. Boards train at 11 A.M., escorted by governor and committee from legislature. Washington Star, 14 February 1861. Meets welcoming committee from Ohio and Kentucky on train. Cincinnati Commercial, 14 February 1861. Speaks from rear platform at Indiana towns of Morris, Shelbyville, Greensburg, and Lawrenceburg, during four-hour ride to Cincinnati. Baltimore Sun, 13 February 1861. Arrives in Cincinnati shortly after 3 P.M., receives immense ovation, and is welcomed by Mayor Richard M. Bishop. Washington Star, 14 February 1861. Rides in carriage with mayor, escorted by Washington Dragoon regiment, for two hours and arrives at Burnet House, where he addresses huge crowd: "I hope that, although we have some threatening National difficulties now—I hope that while these free institutions shall continue to be in the enjoyment of millions of free people of the United States, we will see repeated every four years what we now witness." N.Y. Tribune, 13 February 1861; Cincinnati Commercial, 13 February 1861; Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 February 1861, CW, 4:197-200. Attends public reception in hotel dining room during evening. Goes to balcony at 8 P.M. and speaks to several thousand members of German Industrial Association: "I deem it my duty—a duty which I owe my constituents—to you, gentlemen, that I should wait until the last moment, for a development of the present national difficulties, before I express myself decidedly what course I shall pursue. . . . Mr. Chairman, I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore, without entering upon the details of the question, I will simply say that I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number." Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 February 1861, CW, 4:201-3. [Robert Irwin, employed by Lincoln to handle his financial interests in Springfield during his absence, withdraws $466.34 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.]
Wednesday, February 13, 1861. Cincinnati, OH and Columbus, OH. Browse Month Revised Entry	Lincoln and party, under escort of committee from Ohio Legislature, leave Burnet House at 8:30 A.M. in eight carriages for depot of Little Miami Railroad and leave city at 9 A.M. Lincoln makes short speeches at Ohio towns of Milford, Loveland, Miamiville, Morrow, Corwin, Xenia, and London. Remarks at London, Ohio, 13 February 1861, CW, 4:203-4; William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 274; Columbus Capital City Fact, 13 February 1861. Arrives in Columbus at 2 P.M. Receives national salute; gets enthusiastic welcome from crowd of 60,000. Villard, Eve of '61, 80; Baltimore Sun, 14 February 1861; Washington Star, 14 February 1861. At Capitol Lt. Gov. Robert C. Kirk (Ohio) introduces him before joint meeting of legislature. Baltimore Sun, 14 February 1861. In Columbus, Lincoln speaks to Ohio's General Assembly. He acknowledges that he has revealed little about "the policy of the new administration." Lincoln explains, "In the varying and repeatedly shifting scenes of the present, and without a precedent which could enable me to judge by the past, it has seemed fitting that before speaking upon the difficulties of the country, I should have gained a view of the whole field . . . being at liberty to modify and change the course of policy, as future events may make a change necessary." New York Herald, 14 February 1861, 5:1-2; Address to the Ohio Legislature, Columbus, Ohio, 13 February 1861, CW, 4:204-5. Speaks to public from steps of Capitol immediately following visit to legislature: "The manifestations of good-will towards the government, and affection for the Union which you may exhibit are of immense value to you and your posterity forever." Speech from the Steps of the Capitol at Columbus, Ohio, 13 February 1861, CW, 4:205-6. At 4:30 P.M. receives telegram from Washington, informing him that he is duly elected President of the United States. Attends levee in full evening dress for members of legislature, army and militia officers, Lincoln party, and special guests at residence of Gov. William Dennison (Ohio). Baltimore Sun, 15 February 1861. Returns to Capitol after supper and again receives public. Later accompanies Governor to Deshler Hall, where guards are giving military ball in his honor. Leads grand promenade with captain's wife. Columbus Capital City Fact, 14 February 1861. Lincoln family spends night as guests at governor's home. N.Y. Tribune, 14 February 1861. [Irwin withdraws $16.23 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.]
Thursday, February 14, 1861. Columbus, OH and Pittsburgh, PA. Browse Month	Lincoln and family leave governor's mansion at 7 A.M. under escort for depot. Cincinnati Commercial, 15 February 1861. Train departs shortly before 8 A.M. with throngs of people standing under umbrellas waving farewells. Villard, Eve of '61, 83; Columbus Ohio Statesman, 14 February 1861. Lincoln travels most of way to Pittsburgh in rain, but makes number of stops for speeches where crowds are waiting. William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 276. Responds to welcome at Ohio towns of Newark, Frazeysburg, Dresden, Coshocton, Newcomerstown, Uhrichsville, Cadiz Junction, Steubenville, Wellsville, and at Pennsylvania towns of Rochester, Allegheny City, and Pittsburgh. Remarks at Newark, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:206; Remarks at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:206; Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:206-7; Remarks at Wellsville, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:207-8; Remarks at Rochester, Pennsylvania, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:208; Remarks at the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:208-9; Remarks from Balcony of the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:209-10; Cincinnati Commercial, 15 February 1861. At Cadiz Junction Lincoln dines at Parks House; later remarks to crowd from platform of car that he is "too full for utterance." Remarks at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:206; Columbus Capital City Fact, 15 February 1861. Receives welcome from Judge Lloyd and approximately 10,000 people gathered around carpeted stage near railroad tracks in Steubenville. Replies: "We everywhere express devotion to the Constitution. I believe there is no difference in this respect, whether on this or on the other side of this majestic stream. . . . The question is, as to what the Constitution means— . . . To decide that, who shall be the judge? Can you think of any other, than the voice of the people?" Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:206-7; Cincinnati Commercial, 15 February 1861. Leaves Steubenville at 2:30 P.M. and shortly arrives at Wellsville where he makes brief remarks from platform of rear car. Escort committees from Allegheny City and Cleveland are on board. At Rochester Lincoln answers question, "What will you do with the secesssionists then?" by saying, "My friend, that is a matter which I have under very grave consideration." Remarks at Wellsville, Ohio, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:207-8; Remarks at Rochester, Pennsylvania, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:208; Cincinnati Commercial, 15 February 1861. Arrives at Allegheny City at 8 P.M., having been delayed two hours by broken-down freight train near Freedom, Ohio. Acknowledges welcome of mayor in rain and enters carriage for Monongahela House in Pittsburgh across river. ["We finally got Mr. Lincoln into a carriage; but . . . it looked for a while as if we would never get the carriage out of the crowd that was pushing and yelling all around us." Nicolay to Bates, 15 February 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.] Large crowds in rain and mud block streets to hotel and pack lobby. Standing on chair in lobby of Monongahela House Lincoln reflects: "I could not help thinking, my friends, as I traveled in the rain through your crowded streets, on my way here, that if all that people were in favor of the Union, it can certainly be in no great danger—it will be preserved. . . . Well, my friends, as it is not much I have to say, and as there may be some uncertainty of another opportunity, I will utter it now, if you will permit me to procure a few notes." Returns and announces he has been persuaded to finish speech in morning. Baltimore Sun, 15 February 1861; Remarks at the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvnia, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:208-9; Remarks from Balcony of the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 14 February 1861, CW, 4:209-10.
Friday, February 15, 1861. Pittsburgh, PA and Cleveland, OH. Browse Month	At 8:30 A.M. Lincoln appears on balcony of Monongahela House, and delivers longest address of journey. Multitude of 5,000 stands in rain in front of hotel. Mayor George Wilson introduces Lincoln, who repeats remarks made in Columbus, Ohio then comments on tariff: "So long as direct taxation for the support of government is not resorted to, a tariff is necessary. . . . I have long thought that if there be any article of necessity which can be produced at home with as little or nearly the same labor as abroad, it would be better to protect that article. Labor is the true standard of value. . . . According to my political education, I am inclined to believe that the people in the various sections of the country should have their own views carried out through their representatives in Congress, . . . so that . . . adequate protection can be extended to the coal and iron of Pennsylvania, the corn of Illinois, and the 'reapers of Chicago.' " Lincoln visits Leonard Swett, elector-at-large from Illinois, who has been detained at hotel several weeks by sickness. Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861; Speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15 February 1861, CW, 4:210-15. Leaves immediately for depot through streets lined with people. Villard, Eve of '61, 85-87. Kisses little boy and three lasses while waiting in crowd at depot, part of time in rain. Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861. Train departs 10 A.M. and retraces journey through Rochester, Pa., to Wellsville, Ohio. Lincoln tells assemblage at Wellsville that he will not speak, because he did so day before. At Salineville and Bayard, Ohio, responds to cheering crowds by saluting and bowing. Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861. At Alliance, Ohio, he offers remarks that now have become routine: "I appear before you merely to greet you and say farewell. . . . If I should make a speech at every town, I would not get to Washington until some time after the inauguration." Remarks at Alliance, Ohio, 15 February 1861, CW, 4:215. Accepts hospitality of John N. McCullough, president of railroad, and has dinner at Sourbeck's Hotel. Company of Canton Zouaves stands guard, band plays national airs, and gun salute shatters window during meal, sprinkling glass on Mrs. Lincoln. From temporary stand in front of depot, Lincoln thanks citizens for rousing reception and excuses himself from speaking. Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861. At Hudson, Ohio, crowd engulfs train. Lincoln steps out on train platform and remarks: "You see by my voice that I am quite hoarse. You will not, therefore, expect a speech from me." Remarks at Hudson, Ohio, 15 February 1861, CW, 4:217-18. At Ravenna, Ohio, says: "There are doubtless those here who did not vote for me, but I believe we make common cause for the Union." Remarks at Ravenna, Ohio, 15 February 1861, CW, 4:217. Lincoln, less talkative during day, sits in rear car reading newspapers and reflecting. Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861. Accepts invitation of Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia to visit city and sets 21st as date. Abraham Lincoln to William P. Hacker and Others, 15 February 1861, CW, 4:216. Arrives at Cleveland in snow storm. Nicolay to Bates, 17 February 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Detrains two miles from center of city. "Deafening shout from tens of thousands was re-echoed by roar of artillery." Enters open carriage at approximately 4:30 P.M. Escort of military (Cleveland Grays) and fire companies joins procession to Weddell House. Acting Mayor J. N. Masters and Judge Sherlock J. Andrews welcome him. Lincoln replies: "I think that there is no occasion for any excitement. The crisis, as it is called, is altogether an artificial crisis." Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861; Speech at Cleveland, Ohio, 15 February 1861, CW, 4:215-16. Attends brilliant reception in his honor given in evening. Separate levee held for Mrs. Lincoln. At 10 P.M. Lincoln and suite are guests at supper in Weddell House, where they have lodgings. Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861. [Another version of temporary loss of First Inaugural Address has it occurring in Cleveland, where it is mislaid by Robert Lincoln. Col. James T. Sterling, "How Lincoln 'Lost' His Inaugural Address," Lincoln Herald 45 (February 1944):23-25. See also February 11, 1861.] [Irwin withdraws $39.59 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.]
Saturday, February 16, 1861. Cleveland, OH and Buffalo, NY. Browse Month Revised Entry	Militia company of Cleveland Grays escorts Lincoln from hotel to 9 A.M. train. Leland's Brass Band entertains at depot. Villard, Eve of '61, 87. Train stops at Ohio towns of Willoughby, Painesville, Geneva, Madison, Ashtabula, Conneaut, at Pennsylvania towns of Girard, Erie, Northeast, and at New York towns of Westfield, Dunkirk, and Silver Creek, arriving Buffalo 4:30 P.M. On board are committees from Ohio Legislature, Cleveland, Erie, Chautauqua County, N.Y., and Buffalo. Remarks at Painesville, Ohio, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:218; Remarks at Ashtabula, Ohio, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:218; Remarks at Conneaut, Ohio, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:218-19; Remarks at Erie, Pennsylvania, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:219; Remarks at Westfield, New York, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:219; Remarks at Dunkirk, New York, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:219-20; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861. At Willoughby Lincoln has time to say good morning and goodbye. At Painesville he speaks from special platform to estimated 3,000 persons in response to introduction by Mayor Wilcox. Remarks at Painesville, Ohio, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:218; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861. Cong.-elect Albert G. Riddle (Ohio) rides from Cleveland to Painesville and talks to Lincoln about Sen. Cameron (Pa.). Albert G. Riddle, Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington, 1860-1865 (New York: Putnam, 1895), 179. Train stops one minute at Geneva and Lincoln replies to introduction by Mr. Bearse. At Madison he compliments crowd of ladies during brief stop. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861. Crowd calls for Mrs. Lincoln at Ashtabula, and President-elect remarks that "he should hardly hope to induce her to appear, as he had always found it very difficult to make her do what she did not want to." At Conneaut Lincoln thanks "people for the kindly demonstration." Remarks at Ashtabula, Ohio, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:218; Remarks at Conneaut, Ohio, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:218-19. Horace Greeley boards train at Girard and rides to Erie. Lincoln greets crowd and receives baskets of fruit. Villard, Eve of '61, 87. At 12:22 P.M. presidential party detrains at Erie, and committee escorts it to dining room of railroad company, where Lincoln makes speech. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861. At Northeast he delivers brief remarks from rear platform. Henry J. Raymond, The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death (New York: Derby & Miller, 1865), 141. En route to Washington, D. C., Lincoln's train stops in Westfield, New York, where a "large crowd" greets him. Lincoln remarks that Westfield is the home of twelve-year-old Grace Bedell, who "advised me to let my whiskers grow." Lincoln adds, "[A]cting partly upon her suggestion, I have done so; and now, if she is here, I would like to see her." Before he departs, Lincoln locates the "beautiful girl, with black eyes" and gives her "several hearty kisses . . . amid the yells of delight from the excited crowd." New York Herald, 17 February 1861, 5:1; New York Daily Tribune, 18 February 1861, 5:4; Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania), 20 February 1861, 2:1-2; Remarks at Westfield, New York, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:219. Crowd of 15,000 citizens of Chautauqua County greets Lincoln at Dunkirk. From trackside platform he says: "Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I Ask You to Stand by Me so Long as I Stand by It." Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861; Remarks at Dunkirk, New York, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:219-20. Train stops momentarily at Silver Creek, but Lincoln is resting for entrance to Buffalo. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861. Former President Millard Fillmore and crowd of 10,000 welcome presidential party to Buffalo at 4:30 P.M. Guard of soldiers and police being unable to prevent disorderly jam, guests are jostled and separated; Maj. David Hunter's arm is dislocated, and members of presidential partywalk to hotel. Lincoln rides in procession with Acting Mayor A. S. Benies, Committee Chairman A. M. Clapp, and Ward Hill Lamon, former law partner of Lincoln and bodyguard during trip to Washington. Arriving at American House, speaks from balcony in reply to welcome by acting mayor: "It is most proper I should wait, see the developments, and get all the light I can, so that when I do speak authoritatively I may be as near right as possible. . . . allow me to say that you, as a portion of the great American people, need only to maintain your composure." Meets 34 members of Buffalo committee and governor's staff, who will accompany him to Albany. Holds public reception at 7:30 P.M. Later receives another welcoming committee of 20 Germans headed by ex-Alderman Jacob Beyer. Listens to serenades by two singing groups. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861; Villard, Eve of '61, 87; Speech at Buffalo, New York, 16 February 1861, CW, 4:220-21. [Irwin withdraws $10.75 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.]
Sunday, February 17, 1861. Buffalo, NY. Browse Month	Former President Fillmore calls for Lincoln at 10 A.M. with carriage and takes him to Unitarian Church to hear Rev. George W. Hosmer. They return to hotel for Mrs. Lincoln, then drive to Fillmore's residence to dine. Back at hotel, Lincoln receives friends during afternoon; takes supper with family; afterwards attends service by Indian preacher, Father John Beason. Villard, Eve of '61, 90; N.Y. Times, 18 February 1861.
Monday, February 18, 1861. Buffalo, NY and Albany, NY. Browse Month	Several hundred persons and military escort witness Lincoln's departure by train at 5:45 A.M. Horace Greeley again on board. Stops made at New York towns of Batavia, Rochester, Clyde, Syracuse, Utica, Little Falls, Fonda, Amsterdam, and Schenectady. Illinois State Journal, 20 February 1861. Mr. Bloomer, of Buffalo, "provides the party with dinner, a car being especially fitted up for that purpose." Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861. Gov. Edwin D. Morgan (N.Y.) details five members of staff to accompany Lincoln to Albany. N.Y. Times, 15 February 1861. Lincoln is traveling in car used few months previously by Prince of Wales. Harper, Press, 85. At Syracuse Lincoln disappoints crowd of 10,000 by speaking from train instead of from platform in front of Globe Hotel. Villard, Eve of '61, 90-91. Acknowledges remarks of welcome by mayor of Utica. At Schenectady does not mount special platform in replying to introduction by Judge Platt Potter of Supreme Court. N.Y. Times, 19 February 1861. Receives enthusiastic welcome upon arrival in Albany at 2:30 P.M. Exchanges short speeches on train platform with Mayor George H. Thatcher before entering open carriage for ride to state Capitol, where he receives, and replies to, welcome by governor and staff. Immediately afterwards addresses joint meeting of legislature: "It is true that while I hold myself without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency, I have a more difficult task to perform than any one of them. . . . I still have confidence that the Almighty, the Maker of the Universe will . . . bring us through this as He has through all the other difficulties of our country." Villard, Eve of '61, 91-92; N.Y. Tribune, 19 February 1861; Address to the Legislature at Albany, New York, 18 February 1861, CW, 4:225-26. Thurlow Weed interviews Lincoln at Delavan House where presidential party is staying. Rail Splitters, political club, present bouquet. Committee to escort him to New York calls. Lincoln receives committee from Troy, N.Y., and accepts invitation for next day to "spend just as much time with you as the train permits." N.Y. Herald, 19 February 1861; Abraham Lincoln to M. I. Townsend and Committee, 18 February 1861, CW, 4:227. Lincoln and Morgan families have evening meal at governor's mansion. Lincoln returns to Delavan House for levee at 9 P.M. and greets individually about 1,000 persons; also visits levee held for ladies. N.Y. Herald, 19 February 1861.
Tuesday, February 19, 1861. Albany, NY and New York, NY. Browse Month	Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln leave Albany at 7:45 A.M. grateful for safe deliverance and resolved never to return. Rivalry between governor and members of legislature for honor of entertaining Lincoln has hampered visit. Villard, Eve of '61, 95-96. Mayor, civil dignitaries, and Corps of Burgesses escort the Lincolns to depot. N.Y. Times, 20 February 1861. Lincoln agrees to preinauguration housing arrangement in Washington: "I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me." Lamon, Recollections, 34-35. At Troy, N.Y., replies from platform alongside train to welcome by 10,000 people and spokesman, Mayor Isaac McConihe. Remarks at Troy, New York, 19 February 1861, CW, 4:227; Henry J. Raymond, The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death (New York: Derby & Miller, 1865), 145. Speaks a New York towns of Rhinebeck, Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, and Peekskill [which boasts of the oldest Lincoln Society in America]. Arriving 30th Street Station in New York 3 P.M. has hair smoothed and receives kiss from Mrs. Lincoln before leaving car. N.Y. Times, 20 February 1861; Monaghan, Diplomat, 30. Presidential party occupies 11 carriages in procession to Astor House. Estimated 250,000 people watch; "crowd not as large as usual" on such an occasion. Lincoln rides in open carriage with Chairman Charles G. Cornell, city alderman, Col. Edwin V. Sumner, military aide in Lincoln party, and Judge David Davis, old Illinois friend and member of presidential party, and waves to crowd. No band or military company in procession. Baltimore Sun, 20 February 1861, 21 February 1861. Acknowledges welcome of crowd at Astor House with few remarks at 4 P.M. Addresses crowd later: "I have kept silence for the reason that I supposed it was peculiarly proper that I should do so until the time came when, according to the customs of the country, I should speak officially." Dines with family. Baltimore Sun, 21 February 1861; Remarks upon Arriving at the Astor House, New York City, 19 February 1861, CW, 4:229-30; Speech at the Astor House, New York City, 19 February 1861, CW, 4:230-31. Receives Republican electors of city headed by William Cullen Bryant, editor, New York "Evening Post," about 8 P.M. at hotel, followed by Kings County, N.Y., delegation and several Republican clubs. N.Y. World, 20 February 1861. Wives of politicians hold reception for Mrs. Lincoln. Monaghan, Diplomat, 31. Lincoln thanks Brooklyn Common Council for invitation, but engagements will not permit visit. Promises people of Newark, N.J., that he will bow from train. Reply to the Brooklyn Common Council Committee, New York City, 19 February 1861, CW, 4:232; Abraham Lincoln to the People of Newark, New Jersey, 19 February 1861, CW, 4:231.
Wednesday, February 20, 1861. New York, NY. Browse Month	Accompanied by Thurlow Weed, N. B. Judd, James W. Webb, editor, "Morning Courier and New York Enquirer," and Gov. William Sprague (R.I.), Lincoln leaves Astor House at 8:30 A.M. to breakfast with selected group of merchants at home of former Cong. Moses H. Grinnell (N.Y.), New York merchant. N.Y. World, 21 February 1861; N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861; N.Y. Herald, 21 February 1861. Returns to hotel at 10:30 A.M. and meets Joshua Dewey, aged 94, who has voted at every presidential election since George Washington's. N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861. Committee from common council headed by Alderman Cornell escorts Lincoln to City Hall at 11 A.M. to meet Mayor Fernando Wood and council. Replying to Wood's speech, Lincoln says: "There is nothing that can ever bring me willingly to consent to the destruction of this Union, under which . . . the whole country has acquired its greatness, unless it were to be that thing for which the Union itself was made." N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861; Reply to Mayor Fernando Wood at New York City, 20 February 1861, CW, 4:232-33. Remains for public reception; "motley crowd poured in"; shakes hands with 30 veterans of War of 1812; makes brief remarks from balcony of City Hall; and returns to hotel shortly after 1 P.M. N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 20 February 1861; N.Y. Herald, 21 February 1861. In afternoon receives number of friends privately. N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861. Showman P. T. Barnum invites him to museum, but he does not go; Mrs. Lincoln and children accept. Meets former Gov. Hamilton Fish (N.Y.). Receives hats from both Knox and Leary, New York hatters; when asked their relative value, comments, "They mutually surpassed each other." N.Y. World, 21 February 1861. Vice President-elect Hamlin arrives in New York and dines with Lincoln family in its hotel rooms. Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861. Lincoln, Judge Davis, and Alderman Cornell arrive late at Academy of Music for performance of Verdi's new opera "Un Ballo in Maschera." N.Y. World, 21 February 1861; N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861. Lincoln wears black gloves and shocks city's é lite. Monaghan, Diplomat, 31. After first act takes two bows in response to applause. Audience and cast sing "The Star Spangled Banner." Lincoln returns to hotel after second act. N.Y. World, 21 February 1861. Hamlin speaks from window of ladies' parlor. Presidential party serenaded by German quartette from Hoboken and by National Guard band. N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861. [Irwin withdraws $7 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.] Mrs. Lincoln holds reception at Astor House 8:30 to 10 P.M. N.Y. Times, 21 February 1861.
Thursday, February 21, 1861. New York, NY and En route to Philadelphia, PA. Browse Month Revised Entry	Lincoln departs from New York via Cortlandt Street ferry at 8 A.M. escorted by cheering crowd and salvos of artillery. Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 February 1861; Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861. At Jersey City, N.J., replies briefly to welcome by William L. Dayton, attorney general of New Jersey. To quiet the crowd, speaks a second time. Remarks at Jersey City, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:233-34; Remarks at Newark, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:234-35. At Newark, N.J., Lincoln detrains at "lower depot" and rides one and a half miles in open carriage through town to "upper depot." At each depot is introduced and makes short speech. One estimate reports crowd at 75,000, lower estimate is 25,000. Mount Holly New-Jersey Mirror and Burlington County Advertiser, 28 February 1861; Remarks at Newark, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:234-35. Replies from rear platform to introduction by J. J. Chetwood at Elizabeth, N.J. Rahway, N.J., crowd of 3,000 sees Lincoln for moment. N.Y. World, 22 February 1861. Judge John Van Dyke introduces him from train to 5,000 spectators at New Brunswick, N.J.; Lincoln replies. Remarks at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:235; Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 February 1861. Thirty-four-gun national salute at 12 M. signifies arrival of presidential party at Trenton, N.J. Mayor Mills welcomes Lincoln, who replies and joins W. L. Dayton in open carriage for trip to capitol. Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861. En route to Washington, D. C., Lincoln stops in Trenton, New Jersey, where he addresses the state senate. He remarks, "You give me this reception . . . without distinction of party. . . . [T]his body is composed of a majority of gentlemen who, in the exercise of their best judgment in the choice of a Chief Magistrate, did not think I was the man. . . . [N]evertheless . . . they came forward here to greet me as the constitutional President of the United States . . . the representative man of the nation, united by a purpose to perpetuate the Union and liberties of the people." New York Daily Tribune, 22 February 1861, 5:5; Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:235-36. To General Assembly he says: "I shall do all that may be in my power to promote a peaceful settlement of our difficulties. The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. But it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly." Address to the New Jersey General Assembly at Trenton, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:236-37. Goes to Trenton House for lunch; by popular demand makes few remarks from balcony. Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861; Remarks at Trenton House, Trenton, New Jersey, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:237-38. Leaves Trenton shortly after 2 P.M. Speaks briefly from train at Bristol, Pa. Trenton Daily State Gazette and Republican, 23 February 1861. Arrives Kensington depot Philadelphia at 4 P.M. Receives 34-gun salute by Minute Men of '76 and rides in carriage to Continental Hotel while 100,000 persons watch. Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861, 23 February 1861. Speaks from balcony of hotel in reply to welcome by Mayor Alexander Henry. "We are confident that not one person in the crowd below heard one word of Lincoln's speech." Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861; Reply to Mayor Alexander Henry at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:238-39. Retires from balcony to dine with Mrs. Lincoln in adjoining room. Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861. Stands in receiving line for public reception beginning 8:30 P.M. Replies to delegates who invite him to Wilmington, Del.: "I feel highly flattered . . . but circumstances forbid." Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861; Reply to a Delegation from Wilmington, Delaware, 21 February 1861, CW, 4:239-40. Toward end of reception N. B. Judd asks Lincoln to meet with him and Frederick W. Seward who has just arrived from Washington with letter to Lincoln from his father, Sen. Seward (N.Y.). Letter, based upon information obtained by Gen. Scott and Capt. Charles P. Stone (USA, resd.) describes plot to assassinate Lincoln while passing through Baltimore. Detectives employed by railroad also report similar plot. Lincoln thanks Seward for bringing letter and comments that he will consider the advice to change time and schedule. Refuses to change plans until commitments in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa., are completed. Frederick W. Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915. By Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State during the Administrations of Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes (New York: Putnam, 1916), 134-38; William H. Seward Jr., "Reminiscences of Lincoln," Magazine of History 9 (February 1909):107. City's celebration of Lincoln's visit continues with band concert and fireworks. Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 February 1861. Lincoln meets delegation representing Pennsylvania state administration in chambers of Judge James Milliken in Philadelphia and learns that opposition to Sen. Cameron's (Pa.) appointment has been withdrawn. Milliken to Cameron, 22 February 1861, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. [Irwin withdraws $72.24 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.] Mrs. Lincoln objects to living in private home while waiting to occupy White House. Plans are changed. Lamon to Washburne, 21 February 1861, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Friday, February 22, 1861. Philadelphia, PA and Harrisburg, PA. Browse Month	Lincoln goes in carriage, escorted by Scott Legion, from Continental Hotel down Chestnut St. to Independence Hall about 6:30 A.M. Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, 23 February 1861; John W. Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men, 2 vols. (New York: Harper, 1873-81), 1: 244-46; Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861. In reply to speech of welcome by Theodore L. Cuyler, president of Select Council of Philadelphia, he says: "I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war." Speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1861, CW, 4:240-41. Shortly after 7 A.M. raises new flag of 34 stars in front of Independence Hall and makes brief speech. [Thirty-fourth star represents Kansas, admitted January 29, 1861.] Philadelphia Press, 23 February 1861; Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861; Speech at the Flag-raising before Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1861, CW, 4:241-42. Arrives at Vine and 2d St. railroad station in Harrisburg at 1:30 P.M. after brief stops and speeches at Leaman Place and Lancaster, Pa. Mrs. Lincoln appears with him on platform at Leaman Place, and Lincoln describes situation as "the long and the short of it." Harrisburg Patriot and Union, 23 February 1861; Remarks at Leaman Place, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1861, CW, 4:242; Remarks at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1861, CW, 4:242-43; Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, 23 February 1861. Gov. Andrew J. Curtin (Pa.) welcomes Lincoln at Jones House; Lincoln replies: "It shall be my endeavor to preserve the peace of this country." Reply to Governor Andrew J. Curtin at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1861, CW, 4:243-44. Military escort, senators, and members of house accompany Lincoln to State House at 2:30 P.M. for address before joint meeting. Address to the Pennsylvania General Assembly at Harrisburg, 22 February 1861, CW, 4:244-46. Returns to Jones House at 3 P.M. and learns new plans for trip to Washington. Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861. Judge Davis asks his opinion; Lincoln answers: "Unless there are some other reasons besides ridicule I am disposed to carry out Judd's plan." Lamon, Recollections, 41-42. After public dinner Curtin invites Lincoln to spend night at his home. Instead, he, Lincoln, and W. H. Lamon leave hotel and drive to outskirts of city, where Lincoln and Lamon board special train scheduled to reach Philadelphia in time to connect with 11 P.M. Washington train. Ward H. Lamon, The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration (Boston: Osgood, 1872), 522-26. [Irwin withdraws $9.20 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.]
Saturday, February 23, 1861. Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC. Browse Month	Philadelphia-to-Washington train, with Lincoln, W. H. Lamon, and detective Allan Pinkerton on board, switches to Baltimore & Ohio tracks about 4 A.M. at Baltimore and arrives Washington 6 A.M. Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861; Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sangamon ed., 4 vols. (New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), 3:42. Cong. Washburne (Ill.) surprises Lincoln by meeting train with carriage and driving him to Willard's Hotel, 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Francis F. Browne, The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Thompson, 1886), 391-92. Lincoln breakfasts with Sen. Seward (N.Y.), after which they call upon President Buchanan at White House and meet members of cabinet. Calls on Gen. Scott, who is not home. Returns to Willard's. National Intelligencer, 25 February 1861; N.Y. World, 27 February 1861. Telegraphs Mrs. Lincoln in Harrisburg, Pa., of safe arrival Washington 6 A.M. N.Y. World, 25 February 1861. At 2 P.M. Scott returns Lincoln's call. Illinois State Journal, 27 February 1861. Visitors include Montgomery Blair [soon to be postmaster general] and father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., Washington newspaperman and political figure. Allen C. Clark, Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital (Washington, DC: W. F. Roberts Co., 1925), 9. [About this date Lincoln visits Mathew B. Brady, 352 Pennsylvania Ave. and poses for several photographs. Frederick H. Meserve and Carl Sandburg, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 23 February 1861.] Receives Illinois delegation headed by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (Ill.) in late afternoon. Illinois State Journal, 27 February 1861. Goes by carriage to Seward's residence at 7 P.M. to dine privately. Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861; Clarence E. Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet (New York: Scribner, 1931), 123-24. On return from dinner finds long hall at Willard's lined with people and is so interested in greeting friends on either hand that he forgets to remove hat. N.Y. World, 25 February 1861. Delegates to Peace Conference meeting in Washington call upon Lincoln at 9 P.M. Sen.-elect Chase (Ohio) [soon to be secretary of treasury] and Lucius E. Chittenden, delegate from Vermont, introduce them. Illinois State Journal, 27 February 1861; Lucius E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration (New York: Harper, 1891), 68-78. Lincoln holds impromptu public reception for members of Congress and persons of distinction crowding parlor and anterooms. Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861. Buchanan's cabinet calls at 10 P.M. Allen C. Clark, Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital (Washington, DC: W. F. Roberts Co., 1925), 9. Group of New York businessmen presents compromise scheme to restore Southern commerce. William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 307. [Irwin withdraws $50 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176. Mrs. Lincoln leaves Harrisburg at 9 A.M. on Presidential train, dines at home of John S. Gittings, Baltimore financier and director of B. & O., arrives Washington about 4 P.M., and rides to hotel with Seward and Washburne. N.Y. Herald, 23 February 1861; Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861; National Intelligencer, 26 February 1861. "Hon. A. Lincoln & Family 5 persons Meals in Room for 6" is assigned at Willard's to "No. 6." Private dinners, entertaining, liquor and cigars for numerous visitors bring bill to total of $773.75. (See April 19, 1861.) DLC—Willard's Register Ms.
Sunday, February 24, 1861. Washington, DC. Browse Month	Lincoln family breakfasts at hotel. Barton, Life of Lincoln, 2:5. Lincoln attends St. John's Episcopal Church, opposite Executive Mansion, with Sen. Seward (N.Y.) and after service spends two hours at Seward's home. Washington National Republican, 25 February 1861. In afternoon reads newspaper comments on recent speeches. Barton, Life of Lincoln, 2:6. Receives many callers including Sen. John J. Crittenden (Ky.) and Cong. Charles Francis Adams (Mass.). Illinois State Journal, 27 February 1861; Barton, Life of Lincoln, 2:6. In evening Vice President John C. Breckinridge calls. Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861. Lincoln speaks briefly from hotel window to crowd attending serenade by Marine Band. Stanley P. Kimmel, Mr. Lincoln's Washington (New York: Coward-McCann, 1957), 16. Seward returns copy of Inaugural Address with written comments. Barton, Life of Lincoln, 2:5.
Monday, February 25, 1861. Washington, DC. Browse Month	Lincoln, escorted by Sen. Seward (N.Y.), attends informal reception in both houses of Congress and visits justices of Supreme Court during afternoon. National Intelligencer, 26 February 1861; Albert Shaw, Abraham Lincoln, His Path to the Presidency: The Year of his Election,, 2 vols. (New York: Review of Reviews, 1930), 2:261. In evening Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln receive visitors for two hours in hotel parlors. Baltimore Sun, 26 February 1861. [Irwin withdraws $5.50 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.]
Tuesday, February 26, 1861. Washington, DC. Browse Month	Accompanied by son Robert and John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President-elect, Lincoln takes long walk shortly after sunrise. Interviews two committees representing former Gov. Nathaniel P. Banks (Mass.) and urging his appointment as secretary of war. Sen.-elect Ira Harris (N.Y.) calls on Lincoln in afternoon. Lincoln receives memorials from New York and Boston publishers requesting appointment of Cong. Schuyler Colfax (Ind.) as postmaster general. N.Y. Times, 27 February 1861. Visits Senate to confer with Republican leaders. N.Y. Tribune, 27 February 1861. Holds interview for several hours with Gov. Thomas H. Hicks (Md.), Sen. Douglas (Ill.), and others who recommend that he interpose his influence for settlement of pending difficulties. Baltimore Sun, 28 February 1861. Replies to Sen. Trumbull (Ill.), and Congs. Washburne (Ill.) and Anson Burlingame (Mass.), committee of Congress reporting electoral count. Reply to Committee of Congress Reporting the Electoral Count, 26 February 1861, CW, 4:246. [Irwin withdraws $98.68 from Springfield Marine Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 176.] Mrs. Lincoln receives friends from 3 to 4 P.M. and from 8 to 10 P.M. Washington National Republican, 27 February 1861.
Wednesday, February 27, 1861. Washington, DC. Browse Month Revised Entry	Lincoln walks two miles and holds long interview with former Sen. John Bell (Tenn.) before breakfast. N.Y. Times, 28 February 1861. Washington, D. C. Mayor James G. Berret extends an official welcome to President-elect Lincoln, who resides at the Willard's Hotel. Mayor Berret expresses hope that Lincoln will "restore peace and harmony to our now distracted country." Lincoln acknowledges the "ill feeling that has existed and still exists between the people of the section from whence I came and the people here." He declares, "I have not now any purpose to withhold from you any of the benefits of the constitution . . . that I would not feel myself constrained to withhold from my own neighbors." New York Herald, 28 February 1861, 1:3; Reply to Mayor James G. Berret at Washington, DC, 27 February 1861, CW, 4:246-47. Receives clerks of executive departments. Talks with Sen. Douglas (Ill.) who stays late to make impassioned plea for conciliation of South. National Intelligencer, 1 March 1861; Fletcher Pratt, History of the Civil War (New York: Pocket Books, 1956), 4. Goes to Capitol and receives justices of Supreme Court in afternoon. N.Y. Times, 28 February 1861. At 9 P.M. group of border statesmen, including former Sec. of Treasury James Guthrie of Kentucky and Alexander W. Doniphan of Missouri, calls to talk compromise. William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 315.
Thursday, February 28, 1861. Washington, DC. Browse Month	Sen. Crittenden (Ky.) calls to talk compromise. Several New York delegations see Lincoln about cabinet appointments and other matters. William E. Baringer, A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 319. Cong. Elbridge G. Spaulding (N.Y.), capitalist, gives private dinner at National Hotel in honor of Lincoln and Vice President-elect Hamlin; Gen. Scott present, also some Republican leaders depressed by prospect of losing Southern business. Evening enlivened by Lincoln remarking, apropos news item about Georgian oath to wear no clothes produced under Republican regime, that he would like to see some Georgia gentlemen clad in the costume produced in their state—a shirt collar and a pair of spurs. Fletcher Pratt, History of the Civil War (New York: Pocket Books, 1956), 4-5; National Intelligencer, 2 March 1861. Lincoln and Hamlin make speeches responding to serenade by Republican Association. Baltimore Sun, 2 March 1861; Response to a Serenade, 28 February 1861, CW, 4:247-48. George S. Boutwell, former governor of Massachusetts, and Gen. Wool hold long interviews with Lincoln. N.Y. Times, 1 March 1861.

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  </dateline> <p> Lincoln writes to the <name>Louisville (Kentucky)
  Journal</name> editor, George D. Prentice, who asked Lincoln to provide an
  advance copy of the inaugural address. Lincoln responds, "I have the document
  already blocked out; but in the now rapidly shifting scenes, I shall have to
  hold it subject to revision up to near the time of delivery." 
  <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%3A292' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George D.
  Prentice</xref>, 2 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:184.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-03'>Sunday, February 3, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews William Larimer, Jr., soldier and politician, and 
Mark W. Delahay, Kansas politician, who urge appointment of Sen. 
Cameron (Pa.) to cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Larimer to Cameron, 6 February 1861, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-04'>Monday, February 4, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President-elect receives delegation from Pennsylvania, which
  presses claims of former Gov. Andrew H. Reeder (Kansas Terr.), should Sen.
  Cameron (Pa.) withdraw from cabinet scramble. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune,
  5 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln writes to newspaper editor and
  political insider Thurlow Weed, of Albany, New York. Lincoln seeks to dispel
  the notion that he endorses a candidate to fill secretary-of-state nominee
  William Seward's U.S. Senate seat. Lincoln admits that he discussed the matter
  with a New York state legislator, "but always with an express protest that my
  name <uLine>must</uLine> not be used in the Senatorial election, if favor of,
  or against any one. Any other representation of me, is a misrepresentation." 
  <bibl default='NO'> Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, 28 January 1861; David
  Davis to Abraham Lincoln, 2 February 1861, both in Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A296' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 4
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:185-86.</bibl> </p>
  <p> Limits visiting hours from 3:30 until 5 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>
  <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 4 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Suspends cabinet negotiations and intends to do so until he arrives in
  Washington. <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of
  '61</title>, 60.</bibl> </p> <p> Accepts invitation of New York Legislature to
  pass through state en route to 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%3A295' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan</xref>,
  4 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:185.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-05'>Tuesday, February 5, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>
         </dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln calls upon Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of New York 
"Tribune," presently on lecture tour, at Chenery House. They confer 
for several hours on government policy.
<bibl default='NO'>Lloyd A. Dunlap, "President Lincoln and Editor Greeley," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 5 (June 1948):96.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives another Indiana delegation supporting former Cong. Smith 
(Ind.) for cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 6 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits $100 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $10.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check for $149.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:466.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-06'>Wednesday, February 6, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln accepts invitation of New Jersey Legislature to visit
  state capital on journey to 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%3A297' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles S.
  Olden</xref>, 6 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:186.</bibl> </p> <p> Accepts invitation of citizens of Albany, N.Y., to visit
  their city en route to inauguration. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6
  February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Mr. and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> (assisted by four of her sisters) hold
  farewell reception at home. <bibl default='NO'>Helm,
  <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 155-56.</bibl> </p> <p>Prior to their
  departure for Washington, D. C., Lincoln and his wife Mary host a farewell
  "reception" at their home. A newspaper reports, "The levee lasted from seven to
  twelve o'clock in the evening, and the house thronged by thousands up to a late
  hour. Mr. Lincoln received the guests as they entered and were made known. They
  then passed on, and were introduced to Mrs. Lincoln, who stood near the center
  of the parlors, and who . . . acquitted herself most gracefully and admirably."
  Another reporter writes, "Behind [Lincoln] on the sofa were his two little
  boys, about eight and four years of age respectively, the youngest of whom was
  as noisy as a cub wolf. After a considerable time, the noise of the little
  urchin attracted the father's attention. Thereupon, turning about, and stooping
  down . . . he had some of the pleasantest words for the little fellow, that can
  be imagined. Thereafter there was no noise while I remained. Mrs. Lincoln, who
  is a squatty, pleasant little woman, receives her visitors with an easy gracefulness
  that makes all feel comfortable." <bibl default='NO'><title>Sun</title>
  (Baltimore, MD), 8 February 1861, 2:3; <title>Illinois Daily State
  Journal</title> (Springfield), 9 February 1861, 2:3; <title>Henry County
  Chronicle</title> (Cambridge, IL), 26 February 1861, 2:3-5.</bibl> </p> <p>
  "Reception announced for 7:00 to 12:00. Thousands came and it lasted longer." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Henry B. Rankin, <title>Intimate Character Sketches of
  Abraham Lincoln</title> (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 255-56.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Lincoln deposits $642.91 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $392.12. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 164, 175.</bibl> </p> <p> Writes check for 50&#x00A2; in
  payment of taxes on Lincoln, Ill. lot. <bibl default='NO'>
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:466.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-07'>Thursday, February 7, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln invites Orville H. Browning, attorney who
  later succeeds Stephen A. Douglas in U.S. Senate, to accompany him to
  Washington. Browning agrees to go as far as Indianapolis. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Declines
  invitation from people of Massachusetts to visit state for "want of time." 
  <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%3A298' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John A. Andrew and the Senate and House of Representatives of
  Massachusetts</xref>, 7 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:186.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Accepts invitation
  to visit Columbus, Ohio. Acknowledges invitation from citizens of Dayton, Ohio:
  "I will endeavor to pass through and at least bow to the friends there." <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%3A299' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William Dennison</xref>, 7 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:186-87;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John G. Lowe, Thomas A. Phillips, and W. H. Gillespie</xref>, 7
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:187.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Withdraws $104.70 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='1861-02-08'>Friday, February 8, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln accepts invitation of Pennsylvania Legislature to visit 
Harrisburg. Also accepts invitation to visit Cleveland, Ohio.
<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%3A302' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Darwin A. Finney and Others</xref>, 8 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:188; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A303' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Senter and Others</xref>, 8 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:188.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Member of Georgia Secession Convention tries unsuccessfully to exact 
from Lincoln positive committal on one of compromise propositions.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 64-65.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln family vacates home on Eighth St. and occupies rooms in Chenery House.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry B. Rankin, <title>Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 258-59.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln withdraws $17.50 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Buys from Hartford Fire Insurance Co. insurance policy on house 
($3,000), carriagehouse ($75), woodhouse and privy ($125) for premium 
of $24 per year.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 70.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-09'>Saturday, February 9, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>
         </dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and O. H. Browning discuss at Chenery House state of Union.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives gift of suit of clothes manufactured by Titsworth 
&amp; Brothers of Chicago, to be worn on March 4, 1861. Also receives 
whistle made from pig's tail.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 68-69.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Carl Schurz, German refugee and political power, visits Lincoln briefly.
<bibl default='NO'>Carl Schurz, <title>Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869</title>, trans and ed. by Joseph Schafer (Madison, WI: n.p., 1928), 244.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Notes representing loans to residents of Sangamon County, Ill., 
payable to Lincoln, are left, probably on this day, with Robert 
Irwin, Springfield banker, for safekeeping.
<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%3A304' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt for Notes Left with Robert Irwin for Collection</xref>, [9? February 1861], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:188-89.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits $75 in Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $68.04.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164, 175.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sells to Samuel H. Melvin, Springfield druggist, household 
furnishings worth $82.25.
<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%3A305' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt to Samuel H. Melvin</xref>, 9 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:189.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-10'>Sunday, February 10, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln spends day with Springfield friends. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 12 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> In late afternoon
  discusses unfinished lawsuits with W. H. Herndon at their offices and requests
  that office sign, "Lincoln and Herndon," remain and that Herndon conduct firm's
  business until Lincoln returns. They walk together until near Lincoln's home. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Henry B. Rankin, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham
  Lincoln</title> (New York: Putnam, 1916), 145, 220.</bibl> </p> <p>The day
  before he departs for Washington, D. C., Lincoln meets with his law partner
  William H. Herndon in their office. The two men go "over the books" and make
  plans "for the completion of all unsettled and unfinished matters." Herndon
  recalls that Lincoln looks at the law partnership's "sign-board" and comments,
  "Let it hang there undisturbed." <bibl default='NO'> William H. Herndon and
  Jesse W. Weik, <title>Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life</title>,
  2 vols., (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902), 2:192-94.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Tells Herndon he had not thought there would be need for farewell speech. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Henry B. Rankin, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham
  Lincoln</title> (New York: Putnam, 1916), 226.</bibl> </p> <p> Visits Carl
  Schurz in his room for another conversation. <bibl default='NO'>Carl Schurz,
  <title>Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869</title>, trans and ed. by
  Joseph Schafer (Madison, WI: n.p., 1928), 247.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-11'>Monday, February 11, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place> and <place key='39.7667, -86.1500' teiForm='name'>Indianapolis, IN</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At
  approximately 7:30 A.M. President-elect leaves Chenery House without
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> for Great Western Railroad depot,
  to start trip to Washington. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 February 1861; Thomas D.
  Jones, <title>Memories of Lincoln</title> (New York: Press of the Pioneers,
  1934), 16; Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>,
  28.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Withdraws $400 from Springfield Marine Bank; deposits
  $82.25, payment by S. H. Melvin for certain household furniture. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164, 179.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Shakes hands with friends as they file by. At 8 A.M. boards train and in
  response to demands of crowd (estimated at 1,000) speaks from rear platform:
  "My friends&#8212;No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of
  sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe
  everything. . . . I now leave, . . . with a task before me greater than that
  which rested upon Washington. . . . Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and
  remain with you . . . I bid you an affectionate farewell." Later, with aid of
  John G. Nicolay, he writes out farewell remarks at request of reporter. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 13 February 1861; Villard,
  <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 70-73;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A306' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Farewell
  Address at Springfield, Illinois</xref>, 11 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:190-91.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  acknowledges greetings of people at number of stops during morning. At Decatur,
  Ill. moves rapidly through crowd at depot, shaking hands right and left. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 13 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Makes
  brief remarks at Tolono and Danville, Ill. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 13 February
  1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A307' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Tolono, Illinois</xref>, 11 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:191;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A308' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Danville, Illinois</xref>, 11 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:191-92.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 12:30 P.M.
  train arrives at Indiana State Line where he is welcomed by committee of state
  legislature headed by Capt. Frederick Steele. Here Great Western joins Toledo
  and Wabash, and large numbers of Indiana politicians board train. At Lafayette,
  Ind., Lincoln says: "While some of us may differ in political opinions, still
  we are all united in one feeling for the Union. We all believe in the
  maintainance of the Union, of every star and every stripe of the glorious flag,
  and permit me to express the sentiment that upon the union of the States, there
  shall be between us no difference." <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%3A309' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Indiana State Line</xref>, 11 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:192;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A310' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Lafayette, Indiana</xref>, 11 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:192.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Greets people at
  Thorntown and Lebanon, Ind. Every station along route has its crowd. <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%3A311' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Thornton and Lebanon, Indiana</xref>, 11 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:192-93.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Arrives in
  Indianapolis at 5 P.M. At West Washington St. is officially welcomed by Gov.
  Oliver P. Morton (Ind.) and receives 34-gun salute. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln replies: "To the salvation of this Union
  there needs but one single thing&#8212;the hearts of a people like yours. . . .
  my reliance will be placed upon you and the people of the United States&#8212;
  . . . It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for
  yourselves, and not for me." <bibl default='NO'>Indianapolis Indiana State Guard, 16
  February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A312' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Oliver P. Morton at Indianapolis, Indiana</xref>, 11 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:193-94.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Leaves
  train for carriage, remains standing, and joins procession of 20,000, composed
  of both houses of legislature, public officers, municipal authorities,
  military, and firemen, to Bates House, where he stays overnight. From balcony
  he says: "The words 'coercion' and 'invasion' are in great use about these
  days. . . . Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, for instance,
  without the consent of her people, and in hostility against them, be coercion
  or invasion? . . . But if the Government, for instance, but simply insists upon
  holding its own forts, or retaking those forts which belong to it, or the
  enforcement of the laws of the United States . . . or even the withdrawal of
  the mails from those portions of the country where the mails themselves are
  habitually violated; would any or all of these things be coercion? . . . What
  is the particular sacredness of a State? . . . I am speaking of that assumed
  right of a State, as a primary principle, that the Constitution should rule all that is less than itself, and ruin all that is bigger than
  itself. But, I ask, wherein does consist that right? . . . I am deciding
  nothing, but simply giving something for you to reflect upon." <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%3A313' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  from the Balcony of the Bates House at Indianapolis, Indiana</xref>, 11
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:194-96.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 7 P.M. begins greeting no fewer than 3,000 persons during impromptu
  reception in main parlor. <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of
  '61</title>, 75-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Becomes excited over temporary loss of
  satchel containing copies of Inaugural Address. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay,
  <title corresp='books_Nicolay1'>Lincoln's Secretary</title>, 61-65.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [See also February 15, 1861.] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-12'>Tuesday, February 12, 1861.</date>
            <place key='39.7667, -86.1500' teiForm='name'>Indianapolis, IN</place> and <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
After breakfasting at governor's mansion, Lincoln accompanies Gov. 
Morton (Ind.) to Capitol, where he exchanges greetings with members 
of legislature.
<bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer, <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 271-72.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Shortly after 10 A.M. he appears for third time on balcony of Bates 
House and, in response to crowd which had gathered, makes practically 
same remarks as on previous evening.
<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%3A314' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks from the Balcony at Bates House, Indianapolis, Indiana</xref>, 11 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:196; Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 79.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Welcomes <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and sons to presidential party and takes 
affectionate leave of old Illinois friends, Jesse K. Dubois and 
Ebenezer Peck.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 February 1861; Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 80.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Boards train at 11 A.M., escorted by governor and committee from legislature.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Meets welcoming committee from Ohio and Kentucky on train.
<bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 14 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Speaks from rear platform at Indiana towns of Morris, Shelbyville, 
Greensburg, and Lawrenceburg, during four-hour ride to Cincinnati.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 13 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Arrives in Cincinnati shortly after 3 P.M., receives immense ovation, 
and is welcomed by Mayor Richard M. Bishop.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Rides in carriage with mayor, escorted by Washington Dragoon 
regiment, for two hours and arrives at Burnet House, where he 
addresses huge crowd: "I hope that, although we have some threatening 
National difficulties now&#8212;I hope that while these free 
institutions shall continue to be in the enjoyment of millions of 
free people of the United States, we will see repeated every four 
years what we now witness."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 13 February 1861; Cincinnati Commercial, 13 February 1861; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A317' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio</xref>, 12 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:197-200.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends public reception in hotel dining room during evening. Goes to 
balcony at 8 P.M. and speaks to several thousand members of German 
Industrial Association: "I deem it my duty&#8212;a duty which I owe 
my constituents&#8212;to you, gentlemen, that I should wait until the 
last moment, for a development of the present national difficulties, 
before I express myself decidedly what course I shall pursue. . . . 
Mr. Chairman, I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve 
not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; 
and therefore, without entering upon the details of the question, I 
will simply say that I am for those means which will give the 
greatest good to the greatest number."
<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%3A319' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio</xref>, 12 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:201-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Robert Irwin, employed by Lincoln to handle his financial interests 
in Springfield during his absence, withdraws $466.34 from Springfield 
Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-13'>Wednesday, February 13, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='39.1500, -84.4500' teiForm='name'>Cincinnati, OH</place> and 
  <place key='39.9500, -82.9833' teiForm='name'>Columbus, OH</place>. </dateline>
  <p> Lincoln and party, under escort of committee from Ohio Legislature, leave
  Burnet House at 8:30 A.M. in eight carriages for depot of Little Miami Railroad
  and leave city at 9 A.M. Lincoln makes short speeches at Ohio towns of Milford,
  Loveland, Miamiville, Morrow, Corwin, Xenia, and London. <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%3A320' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at London, Ohio</xref>, 13
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:203-4; William E.
  Baringer, <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect</title>
  (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 274; Columbus Capital
  City Fact, 13 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Arrives in Columbus at 2 P.M.
  Receives national salute; gets enthusiastic welcome from crowd of 60,000. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>,
  80; Baltimore Sun, 14 February 1861; Washington Star, 14 February 1861.</bibl>
  </p> <p> At Capitol Lt. Gov. Robert C. Kirk (Ohio) introduces him before joint
  meeting of legislature. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 14 February
  1861.</bibl> </p> <p> In Columbus, Lincoln speaks to Ohio's General Assembly.
  He acknowledges that he has revealed little about "the policy of the new
  administration." Lincoln explains, "In the varying and repeatedly shifting
  scenes of the present, and without a precedent which could enable me to judge
  by the past, it has seemed fitting that before speaking upon the difficulties
  of the country, I should have gained a view of the whole field . . . being at
  liberty to modify and change the course of policy, as future events may make a
  change necessary." <bibl default='NO'><title>New York Herald</title>, 14
  February 1861, 5:1-2;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A321' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address to the Ohio Legislature, Columbus,
  Ohio</xref>, 13 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:204-5.</bibl> </p> <p> Speaks to public from steps of Capitol immediately
  following visit to legislature: "The manifestations of good-will towards the
  government, and affection for the Union which you may exhibit are of immense
  value to you and your posterity forever." <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%3A322' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech from the Steps of the Capitol at
  Columbus, Ohio</xref>, 13 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:205-6.</bibl> </p> <p> At 4:30 P.M.
  receives telegram from Washington, informing him that he is duly elected
  President of the United States. Attends levee in full evening dress for members
  of legislature, army and militia officers, Lincoln party, and special guests at
  residence of Gov. William Dennison (Ohio). <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 15
  February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Returns to Capitol after supper and again
  receives public. Later accompanies Governor to Deshler Hall, where guards are
  giving military ball in his honor. Leads grand promenade with captain's wife. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Columbus Capital City Fact, 14 February 1861.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Lincoln family spends night as guests at governor's home. 
  <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 14 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> [Irwin
  withdraws $16.23 from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>] </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-14'>Thursday, February 14, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.9500, -82.9833' teiForm='name'>Columbus,
  OH</place> and <place key='40.4333, -79.9833' teiForm='name'>Pittsburgh, PA</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and
  family leave governor's mansion at 7 A.M. under escort for depot. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 15 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Train departs
  shortly before 8 A.M. with throngs of people standing under umbrellas waving
  farewells. <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>,
  83; Columbus Ohio Statesman, 14 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln travels
  most of way to Pittsburgh in rain, but makes number of stops for speeches where
  crowds are waiting. <bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer, <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln
  as President Elect</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association,
  1945), 276.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Responds to welcome at Ohio towns of Newark,
  Frazeysburg, Dresden, Coshocton, Newcomerstown, Uhrichsville, Cadiz Junction,
  Steubenville, Wellsville, and at Pennsylvania towns of Rochester, Allegheny
  City, and Pittsburgh. <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%3A323' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Newark, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:206;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A324' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Cadiz Junction, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:206;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A325' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Steubenville, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:206-7;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A326' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Wellsville, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:207-8;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A327' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Rochester, Pennsylvania</xref>, 14 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:208;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A328' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</xref>, 14 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:208-9;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A329' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  from Balcony of the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</xref>, 14
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:209-10; Cincinnati
  Commercial, 15 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At Cadiz Junction Lincoln dines
  at Parks House; later remarks to crowd from platform of car that he is "too
  full for utterance." <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%3A324' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Cadiz Junction, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:206; Columbus Capital City Fact,
  15 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives welcome from Judge Lloyd and
  approximately 10,000 people gathered around carpeted stage near railroad tracks
  in Steubenville. Replies: "We everywhere express devotion to the Constitution.
  I believe there is no difference in this respect, whether on this or on the
  other side of this majestic stream. . . . The question is, as to what the
  Constitution means&#8212; . . . To decide that, who shall be the judge? Can you
  think of any other, than the voice of the people?" <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%3A325' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Steubenville, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:206-7; Cincinnati Commercial, 15 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Leaves Steubenville at 2:30 P.M. and shortly arrives at
  Wellsville where he makes brief remarks from platform of rear car. Escort
  committees from Allegheny City and Cleveland are on board. At Rochester Lincoln
  answers question, "What will you do with the secesssionists then?" by saying,
  "My friend, that is a matter which I have under very grave consideration." 
  <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%3A326' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Wellsville, Ohio</xref>, 14 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:207-8;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A327' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Rochester, Pennsylvania</xref>, 14 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:208; Cincinnati Commercial, 15
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Arrives at Allegheny City at 8 P.M., having been
  delayed two hours by broken-down freight train near Freedom, Ohio. Acknowledges
  welcome of mayor in rain and enters carriage for Monongahela House in
  Pittsburgh across river. ["We finally got Mr. Lincoln into a carriage; but . .
  . it looked for a while as if we would never get the carriage out of the crowd
  that was pushing and yelling all around us." <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 15
  February 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> Large crowds in rain and mud block streets to hotel and
  pack lobby. Standing on chair in lobby of Monongahela House Lincoln reflects:
  "I could not help thinking, my friends, as I traveled in the rain through your
  crowded streets, on my way here, that if all that people were in favor of the
  Union, it can certainly be in no great danger&#8212;it will be preserved. . . .
  Well, my friends, as it is not much I have to say, and as there may be some
  uncertainty of another opportunity, I will utter it now, if you will permit me
  to procure a few notes." Returns and announces he has been persuaded to finish
  speech in morning. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 15 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A328' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvnia</xref>, 14 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:208-9;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A329' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  from Balcony of the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</xref>, 14
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:209-10.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-15'>Friday, February 15, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='40.4333, -79.9833' teiForm='name'>Pittsburgh,
  PA</place> and <place key='41.4833, -81.6833' teiForm='name'>Cleveland, OH</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At 8:30 A.M.
  Lincoln appears on balcony of Monongahela House, and delivers longest address
  of journey. Multitude of 5,000 stands in rain in front of hotel. Mayor George
  Wilson introduces Lincoln, who repeats remarks made in Columbus, Ohio then
  comments on tariff: "So long as direct taxation for the support of government
  is not resorted to, a tariff is necessary. . . . I have long thought that if
  there be any article of necessity which can be produced at home with as little
  or nearly the same labor as abroad, it would be better to protect that article.
  Labor is the true standard of value. . . . According to my political education,
  I am inclined to believe that the people in the various sections of the country
  should have their own views carried out through their representatives in
  Congress, . . . so that . . . adequate protection can be extended to the coal
  and iron of Pennsylvania, the corn of Illinois, and the 'reapers of Chicago.' "
  Lincoln visits Leonard Swett, elector-at-large from Illinois, who has been
  detained at hotel several weeks by sickness. <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 16
  February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</xref>, 15 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:210-15.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Leaves
  immediately for depot through streets lined with people. <bibl default='NO'>Villard,
  <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 85-87.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Kisses little boy and three lasses while waiting in crowd at depot, part of
  time in rain. <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Train departs 10 A.M. and retraces journey through Rochester, Pa., to
  Wellsville, Ohio. Lincoln tells assemblage at Wellsville that he will not
  speak, because he did so day before. At Salineville and Bayard, Ohio, responds
  to cheering crowds by saluting and bowing. <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 16
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At Alliance, Ohio, he offers remarks that now
  have become routine: "I appear before you merely to greet you and say farewell.
  . . . If I should make a speech at every town, I would not get to Washington
  until some time after the inauguration." <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%3A331' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Alliance, Ohio</xref>, 15 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:215.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Accepts hospitality
  of John N. McCullough, president of railroad, and has dinner at Sourbeck's
  Hotel. Company of Canton Zouaves stands guard, band plays national airs, and
  gun salute shatters window during meal, sprinkling glass on
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>. From temporary stand in front of
  depot, Lincoln thanks citizens for rousing reception and excuses himself from
  speaking. <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At
  Hudson, Ohio, crowd engulfs train. Lincoln steps out on train platform and
  remarks: "You see by my voice that I am quite hoarse. You will not, therefore,
  expect a speech from 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%3A336' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Hudson, Ohio</xref>, 15 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:217-18.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At Ravenna, Ohio,
  says: "There are doubtless those here who did not vote for me, but I believe we
  make common cause for the Union." <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%3A335' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Ravenna, Ohio</xref>, 15 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:217.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, less
  talkative during day, sits in rear car reading newspapers and reflecting. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Accepts
  invitation of Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia to visit city and sets
  21st 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%3A333' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William P. Hacker and Others</xref>, 15 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:216.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Arrives at
  Cleveland in snow storm. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 17 February 1861, John G.
  Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>Detrains
  two miles from center of city. "Deafening shout from tens of thousands was
  re-echoed by roar of artillery." Enters open carriage at approximately 4:30
  P.M. Escort of military (Cleveland Grays) and fire companies joins procession
  to Weddell House. Acting Mayor J. N. Masters and Judge Sherlock J. Andrews
  welcome him. Lincoln replies: "I think that there is no occasion for any
  excitement. The crisis, as it is called, is altogether an artificial crisis." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati Commercial, 16 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A332' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Cleveland, Ohio</xref>, 15 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:215-16.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends brilliant
  reception in his honor given in evening. Separate levee held for
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>. At 10 P.M. Lincoln and suite are
  guests at supper in Weddell House, where they have lodgings. <bibl default='NO'>Cincinnati
  Commercial, 16 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Another version of temporary
  loss of First Inaugural Address has it occurring in Cleveland, where it is
  mislaid by Robert Lincoln. Col. <bibl default='NO'>James T. Sterling, "How Lincoln 'Lost'
  His Inaugural Address," <title>Lincoln Herald</title> 45 (February
  1944):23-25.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> See also February 11, 1861.] [Irwin withdraws
  $39.59 from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-16'>Saturday, February 16, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='41.4833, -81.6833' teiForm='name'>Cleveland, OH</place> and 
  <place key='42.8833, -78.8667' teiForm='name'>Buffalo, NY</place>. </dateline> 
  <p> Militia company of Cleveland Grays escorts Lincoln from hotel to 9 A.M.
  train. Leland's Brass Band entertains at depot. <bibl default='NO'>Villard,
  <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 87.</bibl> </p> <p> Train
  stops at Ohio towns of Willoughby, Painesville, Geneva, Madison, Ashtabula,
  Conneaut, at Pennsylvania towns of Girard, Erie, Northeast, and at New York
  towns of Westfield, Dunkirk, and Silver Creek, arriving Buffalo 4:30 P.M. On
  board are committees from Ohio Legislature, Cleveland, Erie, Chautauqua County,
  N.Y., and Buffalo. <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%3A337' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Painesville, Ohio</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:218;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A338' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Ashtabula, Ohio</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:218;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A339' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Conneaut, Ohio</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:218-19;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A340' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Erie, Pennsylvania</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:219;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A341' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Westfield, New York</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:219;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A342' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Dunkirk, New York</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:219-20; Cleveland
  Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> At Willoughby Lincoln has time
  to say good morning and goodbye. At Painesville he speaks from special platform
  to estimated 3,000 persons in response to introduction by Mayor Wilcox. 
  <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%3A337' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Painesville, Ohio</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:218; Cleveland
  Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Cong.-elect Albert G. Riddle
  (Ohio) rides from Cleveland to Painesville and talks to Lincoln about Sen.
  Cameron (Pa.). <bibl default='NO'>Albert G. Riddle, <title>Recollections of War
  Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington, 1860-1865</title> (New
  York: Putnam, 1895), 179.</bibl> </p> <p> Train stops one minute at Geneva and
  Lincoln replies to introduction by Mr. Bearse. At Madison he compliments crowd
  of ladies during brief stop. <bibl default='NO'>Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18
  February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Crowd calls for
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> at Ashtabula, and
  President-elect remarks that "he should hardly hope to induce her to appear, as
  he had always found it very difficult to make her do what she did not want to."
  At Conneaut Lincoln thanks "people for the kindly demonstration." 
  <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%3A338' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Ashtabula, Ohio</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:218;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A339' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Conneaut, Ohio</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:218-19.</bibl> </p>
  <p> Horace Greeley boards train at Girard and rides to Erie. Lincoln greets
  crowd and receives baskets of fruit. <bibl default='NO'>Villard,
  <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 87.</bibl> </p> <p> At
  12:22 P.M. presidential party detrains at Erie, and committee escorts it to
  dining room of railroad company, where Lincoln makes speech. <bibl default='NO'>Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> At
  Northeast he delivers brief remarks from rear platform. <bibl default='NO'>Henry J. Raymond, <title>The Life and Public Services of Abraham
  Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches,
  Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes
  Connected with his Life and Death</title> (New York: Derby &amp; Miller, 1865),
  141.</bibl> </p> <p>En route to Washington, D. C., Lincoln's train stops in
  Westfield, New York, where a "large crowd" greets him. Lincoln remarks that
  Westfield is the home of twelve-year-old Grace Bedell, who "advised me to let
  my whiskers grow." Lincoln adds, "[A]cting partly upon her suggestion, I have
  done so; and now, if she is here, I would like to see her." Before he departs,
  Lincoln locates the "beautiful girl, with black eyes" and gives her "several
  hearty kisses . . . amid the yells of delight from the excited crowd." 
  <bibl default='NO'><title>New York Herald</title>, 17 February 1861, 5:1;
  <title>New York Daily Tribune</title>, 18 February 1861, 5:4;
  <title>Philadelphia Inquirer</title> (Pennsylvania), 20 February 1861, 2:1-2;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A341' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Westfield, New York</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:219.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Crowd of 15,000 citizens of Chautauqua County greets Lincoln at Dunkirk.
  From trackside platform he says: "<uLine>Standing as I do, with my hand upon
  this staff, and under the folds of the American flag,</uLine> I Ask You to
  Stand by Me so Long as I Stand by It." <bibl default='NO'>Cleveland Plain
  Dealer, 18 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A342' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Dunkirk, New York</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:219-20.</bibl> </p>
  <p> Train stops momentarily at Silver Creek, but Lincoln is resting for
  entrance to Buffalo. <bibl default='NO'>Cleveland Plain Dealer, 18 February
  1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Former President Millard Fillmore and crowd of 10,000
  welcome presidential party to Buffalo at 4:30 P.M. Guard of soldiers and police
  being unable to prevent disorderly jam, guests are jostled and separated; Maj.
  David Hunter's arm is dislocated, and members of presidential partywalk to
  hotel. Lincoln rides in procession with Acting Mayor A. S. Benies, Committee
  Chairman A. M. Clapp, and Ward Hill Lamon, former law partner of Lincoln and
  bodyguard during trip to Washington. Arriving at American House, speaks from
  balcony in reply to welcome by acting mayor: "It is most proper I should wait,
  see the developments, and get all the light I can, so that when I do speak
  authoritatively I may be as near right as possible. . . . allow me to say that
  you, as a portion of the great American people, need only to maintain your
  composure." Meets 34 members of Buffalo committee and governor's staff, who
  will accompany him to Albany. Holds public reception at 7:30 P.M. Later
  receives another welcoming committee of 20 Germans headed by ex-Alderman Jacob
  Beyer. Listens to serenades by two singing groups. <bibl default='NO'>Cleveland
  Plain Dealer, 18 February 1861; Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of
  '61</title>, 87;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A343' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Buffalo, New York</xref>, 16
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:220-21.</bibl> </p>
  <p> [Irwin withdraws $10.75 from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  176.</bibl>] </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-17'>Sunday, February 17, 1861.</date>
            <place key='42.8833, -78.8667' teiForm='name'>Buffalo, NY</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Former President Fillmore calls for Lincoln at 10 A.M. with carriage 
and takes him to Unitarian Church to hear Rev. George W. Hosmer. They 
return to hotel for <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, then drive to Fillmore's residence 
to dine. Back at hotel, Lincoln receives friends during afternoon; 
takes supper with family; afterwards attends service by Indian 
preacher, Father John Beason.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 90; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 18 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-18'>Monday, February 18, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='42.8833, -78.8667' teiForm='name'>Buffalo,
  NY</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>Albany, NY</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Several hundred
  persons and military escort witness Lincoln's departure by train at 5:45 A.M.
  Horace Greeley again on board. Stops made at New York towns of Batavia,
  Rochester, Clyde, Syracuse, Utica, Little Falls, Fonda, Amsterdam, and
  Schenectady. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 20 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Mr. Bloomer, of Buffalo, "provides the party with dinner,
  a car being especially fitted up for that purpose." <bibl default='NO'>Cleveland Plain
  Dealer, 18 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gov. Edwin D. Morgan (N.Y.) details
  five members of staff to accompany Lincoln to Albany. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y.
  Times</title>, 15 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln is traveling in car
  used few months previously by Prince of Wales. <bibl default='NO'>Harper,
  <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 85.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At Syracuse
  Lincoln disappoints crowd of 10,000 by speaking from train instead of from
  platform in front of Globe Hotel. <bibl default='NO'>Villard,
  <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 90-91.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Acknowledges remarks of welcome by mayor of Utica. At Schenectady does not
  mount special platform in replying to introduction by Judge Platt Potter of
  Supreme Court. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 19 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives enthusiastic welcome upon arrival in Albany at 2:30 P.M. Exchanges
  short speeches on train platform with Mayor George H. Thatcher before entering
  open carriage for ride to state Capitol, where he receives, and replies to,
  welcome by governor and staff. Immediately afterwards addresses joint meeting
  of legislature: "It is true that while I hold myself without mock modesty, the
  humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency, I
  have a more difficult task to perform than any one of them. . . . I still have
  confidence that the Almighty, the Maker of the Universe will . . . bring us
  through this as He has through all the other difficulties of our country." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 91-92; N.Y.
  Tribune, 19 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A354' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address
  to the Legislature at Albany, New York</xref>, 18 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:225-26.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Thurlow
  Weed interviews Lincoln at Delavan House where presidential party is staying.
  Rail Splitters, political club, present bouquet. Committee to escort him to New
  York calls. Lincoln receives committee from Troy, N.Y., and accepts invitation
  for next day to "spend just as much time with you as the train permits." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 19 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A355' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to M. I. Townsend and Committee</xref>, 18 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:227.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln and
  Morgan families have evening meal at governor's mansion. Lincoln returns to
  Delavan House for levee at 9 P.M. and greets individually about 1,000 persons;
  also visits levee held for ladies. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 19
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-19'>Tuesday, February 19, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Albany,
  NY</place> and <place key='40.7000, -74.0000' teiForm='name'>New York, NY</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Mr. and
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> leave Albany at 7:45 A.M. grateful
  for safe deliverance and resolved never to return. Rivalry between governor and
  members of legislature for honor of entertaining Lincoln has hampered visit. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>,
  95-96.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Mayor, civil dignitaries, and Corps of Burgesses escort
  the Lincolns to depot. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 20 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln agrees to preinauguration housing arrangement in
  Washington: "I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place
  where people can have access to me." <bibl default='NO'>Lamon, <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 34-35.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At Troy,
  N.Y., replies from platform alongside train to welcome by 10,000 people and
  spokesman, Mayor Isaac McConihe. <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%3A356' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Troy, New York</xref>, 19 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:227; Henry J. Raymond, <title>The Life
  and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers,
  including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the
  Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death</title> (New York: Derby &amp;
  Miller, 1865), 145.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Speaks a New York towns of Rhinebeck,
  Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, and Peekskill [which boasts of the oldest
  Lincoln Society in America]. Arriving 30th Street Station in New York 3 P.M.
  has hair smoothed and receives kiss from <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> before leaving car. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 20
  February 1861; Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>,
  30.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Presidential party occupies 11 carriages in procession to
  Astor House. Estimated 250,000 people watch; "crowd not as large as usual" on
  such an occasion. Lincoln rides in open carriage with Chairman Charles G.
  Cornell, city alderman, Col. Edwin V. Sumner, military aide in Lincoln party,
  and Judge David Davis, old Illinois friend and member of presidential party,
  and waves to crowd. No band or military company in procession. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore
  Sun, 20 February 1861, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Acknowledges welcome
  of crowd at Astor House with few remarks at 4 P.M. Addresses crowd later: "I
  have kept silence for the reason that I supposed it was peculiarly proper that
  I should do so until the time came when, according to the customs of the
  country, I should speak officially." Dines with family. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 21
  February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A361' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  upon Arriving at the Astor House, New York City</xref>, 19 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:229-30;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A362' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at the Astor House, New York City</xref>, 19 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:230-31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives
  Republican electors of city headed by William Cullen Bryant, editor, New York
  "Evening Post," about 8 P.M. at hotel, followed by Kings County, N.Y.,
  delegation and several Republican clubs. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 20 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Wives of politicians hold reception for
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>. <bibl default='NO'>Monaghan,
  <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  thanks Brooklyn Common Council for invitation, but engagements will not permit
  visit. Promises people of Newark, N.J., that he will bow from train. <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%3A364' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to the Brooklyn Common Council Committee, New York City</xref>, 19 February
  1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:232;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A363' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the People of Newark, New Jersey</xref>, 19 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:231.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-20'>Wednesday, February 20, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='40.7000, -74.0000' teiForm='name'>New York,
  NY</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Accompanied by Thurlow Weed, N. B. Judd, James W.
  Webb, editor, "Morning Courier and New York Enquirer," and Gov. William Sprague
  (R.I.), Lincoln leaves Astor House at 8:30 A.M. to breakfast with selected
  group of merchants at home of former Cong. Moses H. Grinnell (N.Y.), New York
  merchant. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 21 February 1861; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 21
  February 1861; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Returns to hotel at 10:30 A.M. and meets Joshua Dewey, aged 94, who has voted
  at every presidential election since George Washington's. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y.
  Times</title>, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee from common council
  headed by Alderman Cornell escorts Lincoln to City Hall at 11 A.M. to meet
  Mayor Fernando Wood and council. Replying to Wood's speech, Lincoln says:
  "There is nothing that can ever bring me willingly to consent to the
  destruction of this Union, under which . . . the whole country has acquired its
  greatness, unless it were to be that thing for which the Union itself was
  made." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 21 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A366' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Mayor Fernando Wood at New York City</xref>, 20 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:232-33.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Remains
  for public reception; "motley crowd poured in"; shakes hands with 30 veterans
  of War of 1812; makes brief remarks from balcony of City Hall; and returns to
  hotel shortly after 1 P.M. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 21 February 1861;
  Cleveland Plain Dealer, 20 February 1861; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 21
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In afternoon receives number of friends
  privately. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Showman P. T. Barnum invites him to museum, but he does not go; Mrs. Lincoln
  and children accept. Meets former Gov. Hamilton Fish (N.Y.). Receives hats from
  both Knox and Leary, New York hatters; when asked their relative value,
  comments, "They mutually surpassed each other." <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 21 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Vice President-elect Hamlin arrives in New York and dines
  with Lincoln family in its hotel rooms. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 22 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, Judge Davis, and Alderman Cornell arrive late at
  Academy of Music for performance of Verdi's new opera "Un Ballo in Maschera." 
  <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 21 February 1861; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 21 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln wears black gloves and shocks city's &#233;
  lite. <bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>,
  31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> After first act takes two bows in response to applause.
  Audience and cast sing "The Star Spangled Banner." Lincoln returns to hotel
  after second act. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Hamlin
  speaks from window of ladies' parlor. Presidential party serenaded by German
  quartette from Hoboken and by National Guard band. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y.
  Times</title>, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $7 from
  Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> holds reception at Astor House 8:30 to 10 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 21 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-21'>Thursday, February 21, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='40.7000, -74.0000' teiForm='name'>New York, NY</place> and 
  <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to 
  <place key='39.9500, -75.1500' teiForm='name'>Philadelphia, PA</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln departs from New York via Cortlandt Street ferry at 8
  A.M. escorted by cheering crowd and salvos of artillery. <bibl default='NO'>Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 February 1861; Baltimore Sun, 22
  February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> At Jersey City, N.J., replies briefly to welcome
  by William L. Dayton, attorney general of New Jersey. To quiet the crowd,
  speaks a second time. <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%3A368' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Jersey City, New Jersey</xref>,
  21 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:233-34;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A369' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Newark, New Jersey</xref>, 21
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:234-35.</bibl> </p>
  <p> At Newark, N.J., Lincoln detrains at "lower depot" and rides one and a half
  miles in open carriage through town to "upper depot." At each depot is
  introduced and makes short speech. One estimate reports crowd at 75,000, lower
  estimate is 25,000. <bibl default='NO'>Mount Holly New-Jersey Mirror and
  Burlington County Advertiser, 28 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A369' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Newark, New Jersey</xref>, 21
  February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:234-35.</bibl> </p>
  <p> Replies from rear platform to introduction by J. J. Chetwood at Elizabeth,
  N.J. Rahway, N.J., crowd of 3,000 sees Lincoln for moment. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 22 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Judge John Van Dyke
  introduces him from train to 5,000 spectators at New Brunswick, N.J.; Lincoln
  replies. <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%3A370' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at New Brunswick, New
  Jersey</xref>, 21 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:235; Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Thirty-four-gun
  national salute at 12 M. signifies arrival of presidential party at Trenton,
  N.J. Mayor Mills welcomes Lincoln, who replies and joins W. L. Dayton in open
  carriage for trip to capitol. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 23 February
  1861.</bibl> </p> <p> En route to Washington, D. C., Lincoln stops in Trenton,
  New Jersey, where he addresses the state senate. He remarks, "You give me this
  reception . . . without distinction of party. . . . [T]his body is composed of
  a majority of gentlemen who, in the exercise of their best judgment in the
  choice of a Chief Magistrate, did not think I was the man. . . . [N]evertheless
  . . . they came forward here to greet me as the constitutional President of the
  United States . . . the representative man of the nation, united by a purpose
  to perpetuate the Union and liberties of the people." <bibl default='NO'>
  <title>New York Daily Tribune</title>, 22 February 1861, 5:5;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A371' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address to the New Jersey Senate at
  Trenton, New Jersey</xref>, 21 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:235-36.</bibl> </p> <p> To General
  Assembly he says: "I shall do all that may be in my power to promote a peaceful
  settlement of our difficulties. The man does not live who is more devoted to
  peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. But it may be necessary
  to put the foot down firmly." <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%3A372' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address to the New Jersey General Assembly
  at Trenton, New Jersey</xref>, 21 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:236-37.</bibl> </p> <p> Goes to Trenton
  House for lunch; by popular demand makes few remarks from balcony. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A373' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Trenton House, Trenton, New
  Jersey</xref>, 21 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:237-38.</bibl> </p> <p> Leaves Trenton shortly after 2 P.M. Speaks briefly
  from train at Bristol, Pa. <bibl default='NO'>Trenton Daily State Gazette and
  Republican, 23 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Arrives Kensington depot
  Philadelphia at 4 P.M. Receives 34-gun salute by Minute Men of '76 and rides in
  carriage to Continental Hotel while 100,000 persons watch. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861, 23 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Speaks from balcony of hotel in reply to welcome by Mayor Alexander Henry. "We
  are confident that not one person in the crowd below heard one word of
  Lincoln's speech." <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 22 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A374' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Mayor Alexander Henry at
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</xref>, 21 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:238-39.</bibl> </p> <p> Retires
  from balcony to dine with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> in adjoining room. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 23
  February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Stands in receiving line for public reception
  beginning 8:30 P.M. Replies to delegates who invite him to Wilmington, Del.: "I
  feel highly flattered . . . but circumstances forbid." <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 23 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A375' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to a Delegation from Wilmington,
  Delaware</xref>, 21 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  4:239-40.</bibl> </p> <p> Toward end of reception N. B. Judd asks Lincoln to
  meet with him and Frederick W. Seward who has just arrived from Washington with
  letter to Lincoln from his father, Sen. Seward (N.Y.). Letter, based upon
  information obtained by Gen. Scott and Capt. Charles P. Stone (USA, resd.)
  describes plot to assassinate Lincoln while passing through Baltimore.
  Detectives employed by railroad also report similar plot. Lincoln thanks Seward
  for bringing letter and comments that he will consider the advice to change
  time and schedule. Refuses to change plans until commitments in Philadelphia
  and Harrisburg, Pa., are completed. <bibl default='NO'>Frederick W. Seward,
  <title>Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915. By
  Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State during the Administrations of
  Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes</title> (New York: Putnam, 1916), 134-38; William
  H. Seward Jr., "Reminiscences of Lincoln," <title>Magazine of History</title> 9
  (February 1909):107.</bibl> </p> <p> City's celebration of Lincoln's visit
  continues with band concert and fireworks. <bibl default='NO'>Philadelphia
  Inquirer, 22 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln meets delegation
  representing Pennsylvania state administration in chambers of Judge James
  Milliken in Philadelphia and learns that opposition to Sen. Cameron's (Pa.)
  appointment has been withdrawn. <bibl default='NO'>Milliken to Cameron, 22
  February 1861, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> [Irwin withdraws $72.24 from Springfield Marine Bank. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>] </p> <p> <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> objects to living in private home while
  waiting to occupy White House. Plans are changed. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon to
  Washburne, 21 February 1861, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington DC.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-22'>Friday, February 22, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.9500, -75.1500' teiForm='name'>Philadelphia,
  PA</place> and <place key='40.2667, -76.8833' teiForm='name'>Harrisburg, PA</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln goes in
  carriage, escorted by Scott Legion, from Continental Hotel down Chestnut St. to
  Independence Hall about 6:30 A.M. <bibl default='NO'>Philadelphia North American and United
  States Gazette, 23 February 1861; John W. Forney, <title>Anecdotes of Public
  Men</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Harper, 1873-81), 1: 244-46; Baltimore Sun, 23
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In reply to speech of welcome by Theodore L.
  Cuyler, president of Select Council of Philadelphia, he says: "I have never had
  a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the
  Declaration of Independence. . . . in my view of the present aspect of affairs,
  there is no need of bloodshed and war." <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%3A376' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</xref>, 22 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:240-41.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Shortly
  after 7 A.M. raises new flag of 34 stars in front of Independence Hall and
  makes brief speech. [Thirty-fourth star represents Kansas, admitted January 29,
  1861.] <bibl default='NO'>Philadelphia Press, 23 February 1861; Baltimore Sun, 23 February
  1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A377' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at the Flag-raising before Independence Hall, Philadelphia,
  Pennsylvania</xref>, 22 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:241-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Arrives at Vine
  and 2d St. railroad station in Harrisburg at 1:30 P.M. after brief stops and
  speeches at Leaman Place and Lancaster, Pa. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> appears with him on platform at Leaman Place, and Lincoln
  describes situation as "the long and the short of it." <bibl default='NO'>Harrisburg Patriot
  and Union, 23 February 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A378' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Leaman Place, Pennsylvania</xref>, 22 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:242;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A379' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  at Lancaster, Pennsylvania</xref>, 22 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:242-43; Philadelphia North
  American and United States Gazette, 23 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gov.
  Andrew J. Curtin (Pa.) welcomes Lincoln at Jones House; Lincoln replies: "It
  shall be my endeavor to preserve the peace of this country." <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%3A380' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Governor Andrew J. Curtin at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania</xref>, 22 February
  1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:243-44.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Military escort, senators, and members of house accompany Lincoln to State
  House at 2:30 P.M. for address before joint meeting. <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%3A381' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address
  to the Pennsylvania General Assembly at Harrisburg</xref>, 22 February 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:244-46.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Returns to
  Jones House at 3 P.M. and learns new plans for trip to Washington. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Judge Davis asks his
  opinion; Lincoln answers: "Unless there are some other reasons besides ridicule
  I am disposed to carry out Judd's plan." <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 41-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  After public dinner Curtin invites Lincoln to spend night at his home. Instead,
  he, Lincoln, and W. H. Lamon leave hotel and drive to outskirts of city, where
  Lincoln and Lamon board special train scheduled to reach Philadelphia in time
  to connect with 11 P.M. Washington train. <bibl default='NO'>Ward H. Lamon, <title>The Life
  of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration</title> (Boston: Osgood,
  1872), 522-26.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $9.20 from Springfield Marine
  Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  176.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-02-23'>Saturday, February 23, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.2833, -76.6000' teiForm='name'>Baltimore,
  MD</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>
  Philadelphia-to-Washington train, with Lincoln, W. H. Lamon, and detective
  Allan Pinkerton on board, switches to Baltimore &amp; Ohio tracks about 4 A.M.
  at Baltimore and arrives Washington 6 A.M. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25 February
  1861; Ida M. Tarbell, <title>The Life of Abraham Lincoln</title>, Sangamon ed.,
  4 vols. (New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), 3:42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cong.
  Washburne (Ill.) surprises Lincoln by meeting train with carriage and driving
  him to Willard's Hotel, 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW. <bibl default='NO'>Francis F.
  Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York:
  Thompson, 1886), 391-92.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln breakfasts with Sen. Seward
  (N.Y.), after which they call upon President Buchanan at White House and meet
  members of cabinet. Calls on Gen. Scott, who is not home. Returns to Willard's.
  <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 February 1861; N.Y. World, 27 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in
  Harrisburg, Pa., of safe arrival Washington 6 A.M. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 25
  February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 2 P.M. Scott returns Lincoln's call. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 27 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Visitors include Montgomery Blair [soon to be postmaster general] and father,
  Francis P. Blair, Sr., Washington newspaperman and political figure. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Allen C. Clark, <title>Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital</title>
  (Washington, DC: W. F. Roberts Co., 1925), 9.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [About this date
  Lincoln visits Mathew B. Brady, 352 Pennsylvania Ave. and poses for several
  photographs. <bibl default='NO'>Frederick H. Meserve and Carl Sandburg, <title>The
  Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 23
  February 1861.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> Receives Illinois delegation headed by Sen.
  Stephen A. Douglas (Ill.) in late afternoon. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois State
  Journal</title>, 27 February 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Goes by carriage to Seward's
  residence at 7 P.M. to dine privately. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861;
  Clarence E. Macartney, <title>Lincoln and His Cabinet</title> (New York:
  Scribner, 1931), 123-24.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> On return from dinner finds long hall
  at Willard's lined with people and is so interested in greeting friends on
  either hand that he forgets to remove hat. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. World, 25 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Delegates to Peace Conference meeting in Washington call
  upon Lincoln at 9 P.M. Sen.-elect Chase (Ohio) [soon to be secretary of
  treasury] and Lucius E. Chittenden, delegate from Vermont, introduce them. 
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 27 February 1861; Lucius E.
  Chittenden, <title>Recollections of President Lincoln and his
  Administration</title> (New York: Harper, 1891), 68-78.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  holds impromptu public reception for members of Congress and persons of
  distinction crowding parlor and anterooms. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Buchanan's cabinet calls at 10 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Allen C. Clark,
  <title>Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital</title> (Washington, DC: W. F.
  Roberts Co., 1925), 9.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Group of New York businessmen presents
  compromise scheme to restore Southern commerce. <bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer,
  <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect</title> (Springfield, IL:
  Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 307.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $50
  from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> leaves Harrisburg at 9 A.M. on
  Presidential train, dines at home of John S. Gittings, Baltimore financier and
  director of B. &amp; O., arrives Washington about 4 P.M., and rides to hotel
  with Seward and Washburne. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 23 February 1861;
  Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861; National Intelligencer, 26 February
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Hon. A. Lincoln &amp; Family 5 persons Meals in Room for
  6" is assigned at Willard's to "No. 6." Private dinners, entertaining, liquor
  and cigars for numerous visitors bring bill to total of $773.75. (See April 19,
  1861.) <bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;Willard's Register Ms.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-24'>Sunday, February 24, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln family breakfasts at hotel.
<bibl default='NO'>Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 2:5.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln attends St. John's Episcopal Church, opposite Executive 
Mansion, with Sen. Seward (N.Y.) and after service spends two hours 
at Seward's home.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 25 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon reads newspaper comments on recent speeches.
<bibl default='NO'>Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 2:6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives many callers including Sen. John J. Crittenden (Ky.) and 
Cong. Charles Francis Adams (Mass.).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Journal</title>, 27 February 1861; Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 2:6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Vice President John C. Breckinridge calls.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln speaks briefly from hotel window to crowd attending serenade 
by Marine Band.
<bibl default='NO'>Stanley P. Kimmel, <title>Mr. Lincoln's Washington</title> (New York: Coward-McCann, 1957), 16.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Seward returns copy of Inaugural Address with written comments.
<bibl default='NO'>Barton, <title corresp='books_Barton'>Life of Lincoln</title>, 2:5.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-25'>Monday, February 25, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, escorted by Sen. Seward (N.Y.), attends informal reception 
in both houses of Congress and visits justices of Supreme Court 
during afternoon.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26 February 1861; Albert Shaw, <title>Abraham Lincoln, His Path to the Presidency: The Year of his Election,</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Review of Reviews, 1930), 2:261.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Mr. and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> receive visitors for two hours in 
hotel parlors.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 26 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $5.50 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-26'>Tuesday, February 26, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Accompanied by son Robert and John G. Nicolay, private secretary to 
President-elect, Lincoln takes long walk shortly after sunrise. 
Interviews two committees representing former Gov. Nathaniel P. Banks 
(Mass.) and urging his appointment as secretary of war. Sen.-elect 
Ira Harris (N.Y.) calls on Lincoln in afternoon. Lincoln receives 
memorials from New York and Boston publishers requesting appointment 
of Cong. Schuyler Colfax (Ind.) as postmaster general.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 27 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits Senate to confer with Republican leaders.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 27 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Holds interview for several hours with Gov. Thomas H. Hicks (Md.), 
Sen. Douglas (Ill.), and others who recommend that he interpose his 
influence for settlement of pending difficulties.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 28 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Replies to Sen. Trumbull (Ill.), and Congs. Washburne (Ill.) and 
Anson Burlingame (Mass.), committee of Congress reporting electoral 
count.
<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%3A382' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Committee of Congress Reporting the Electoral Count</xref>, 26 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:246.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $98.68 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> receives friends from 3 to 4 P.M. and from 8 to 10 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 27 February 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1861-02-27'>Wednesday, February 27, 1861.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln walks two miles and holds long interview with former
  Sen. John Bell (Tenn.) before breakfast. <bibl default='NO'> <title>N.Y.
  Times</title>, 28 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p>Washington, D. C. Mayor James
  G. Berret extends an official welcome to President-elect Lincoln, who resides
  at the Willard's Hotel. Mayor Berret expresses hope that Lincoln will "restore
  peace and harmony to our now distracted country." Lincoln acknowledges the "ill
  feeling that has existed and still exists between the people of the section
  from whence I came and the people here." He declares, "I have not now any
  purpose to withhold from you any of the benefits of the constitution . . . that
  I would not feel myself constrained to withhold from my own neighbors." 
  <bibl default='NO'> <title>New York Herald</title>, 28 February 1861, 1:3;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A383' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Mayor James G. Berret at
  Washington, DC</xref>, 27 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:246-47.</bibl> </p> <p> Receives clerks
  of executive departments. Talks with Sen. Douglas (Ill.) who stays late to make
  impassioned plea for conciliation of South. <bibl default='NO'>National
  Intelligencer, 1 March 1861; Fletcher Pratt, <title>History of the Civil
  War</title> (New York: Pocket Books, 1956), 4.</bibl> </p> <p> Goes to Capitol
  and receives justices of Supreme Court in afternoon. <bibl default='NO'>
  <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 28 February 1861.</bibl> </p> <p> At 9 P.M. group of
  border statesmen, including former Sec. of Treasury James Guthrie of Kentucky
  and Alexander W. Doniphan of Missouri, calls to talk compromise. 
  <bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer, <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln as
  President Elect</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945),
  315.</bibl> </p> </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-02-28'>Thursday, February 28, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Crittenden (Ky.) calls to talk compromise. Several New York 
delegations see Lincoln about cabinet appointments and other matters.
<bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer, <title>A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), 319.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Elbridge G. Spaulding (N.Y.), capitalist, gives private dinner 
at National Hotel in honor of Lincoln and Vice President-elect 
Hamlin; Gen. Scott present, also some Republican leaders depressed by 
prospect of losing Southern business. Evening enlivened by Lincoln 
remarking, apropos news item about Georgian oath to wear no clothes 
produced under Republican regime, that he would like to see some 
Georgia gentlemen clad in the costume produced in their state&#8212;a 
shirt collar and a pair of spurs.
<bibl default='NO'>Fletcher Pratt, <title>History of the Civil War</title> (New York: Pocket Books, 1956), 4-5; National Intelligencer, 2 March 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and Hamlin make speeches responding to serenade by Republican 
Association.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 2 March 1861; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A384' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to a Serenade</xref>, 28 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:247-48.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
George S. Boutwell, former governor of Massachusetts, and Gen. Wool 
hold long interviews with Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 1 March 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
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