Lincoln writes Charles A. Purdy that register of land office "says the way for you to get your Patents, is to send these Receipts or Certificates to the General Land Office, with your address, and the Patents will be forwarded directly to your address. Accordingly, I inclose the Receipts to you." Abraham Lincoln to Charles A. Purdy, 9 June 1857, CW, 2:397.

Logan and Lincoln, representing defendant, file affidavit in Gale v. Morgan County Bank in U.S. Court. Plaintiff has brought suit to recover $10,000 from defendant. Record.

Lincoln writes and files declaration in Gilbert v. Read et al. Plaintiff asks damages of $3,000 because he had been suspended from Shurtleff College. IHi—Original.

In response to invitation of grand jury of U.S. Court, Douglas speaks in state house. "The representative hall was a perfect jam—a very large number of ladies were present on the occasion. We were pleased to see in attendance, Col. W. H. Herndon, the Hon. A. Lincoln, the Hon. S. M. Cullom and many other prominent men in the republican party." Register, 15 June 1857.

Issue is joined before jury in Coffin v. Palmer et al. in U.S. Circuit Court, Lincoln and Smith for plaintiff. Court adjourns before arguments are finished. Record.

In the evening, Lincoln is in Springfield, where he delivers a speech "in reply to the speech recently made by Judge [Stephen] Douglas." Lincoln takes issue with Douglas's support of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. Lincoln asserts, "That decision declares two propositions—first, that a negro cannot sue in the U.S. Courts; and secondly, that Congress cannot prohibit slavery in the Territories. . . . [W]e think the . . . decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it, has often over-ruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it to over-rule this." Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 29 June 1857, 2:1; Speech at Springfield, Illinois, 26 June 1857, CW, 2:398-410.