[Fifth issue of The Old Soldier is published. Old Soldier (Springfield, IL), Issue 5, 1 April 1840.]

Whig rally opens in court house at 10:30 A.M. It soon adjourns to public square and continues until dusk. Evening meeting in court house lasts until after midnight. Lincoln and nine other orators are heard. Missouri Republican of April 13, 1840 declared Lincoln's speech lucid, forcible, and effective. Belleville Advocate thought it "weak, puerile, and feeble. . . . Poor Lincoln!"

Finch & Finch v. Gardner, trespass action in Pike County Circuit Court, is tried by jury, which awards plaintiff $275. Lincoln, Wheeler, and Grimshaw represent defendant; they vainly move arrest of judgment.Record.

[Sixth issue of The Old Soldier is published. Old Soldier (Springfield, IL), Issue 6, 15 April 1840.]

Lincoln writes and files amended declaration for plaintiff, Siloam Carter, in Carter v. Bennett & Ransdell in Sangamon Circuit Court. He filed declaration February 4, 1840. He files declaration in Ransdell v. Lightfoot & Lightfoot; and writes declaration and praecipe in Ransdell v. Calhoun.Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln as attorney for plaintiffs in John & Augustus Kerr & Co. v. Constant & Francis bids in two lots in Athens, at sheriff's sale, on judgment for $440.14 won at fall term of Sangamon Circuit Court.Execution File No. 890.