[Lincoln advertises in the Sangamo Journal list of 49 letters still on hand in New Salem post office, which if not called for by October 1, 1836, will be sent to the general post office as dead letters. Sangamo Journal, 9 July 1836, 2:7.]

[Sangamo Journal announces that Republican, Springfield's Democratic paper, compliments Lincoln for course he took in legislature on bill "permitting the State Bank to take the million dollars worth of reserve stock and obligating the bank to pay the Wiggins loan" of $100,000 made in 1831. Sangamo Journal, 2 July 1836.]

Lincoln and other candidates for legislature probably attend celebration of Fourth of July. Moses K. Anderson, candidate for Senate, and Richard M. Quinton, candidate for House, are only two speakers mentioned in Sangamo Journal. Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 9 July 1836.

Lincoln is debator at political meeting in court house. Ninian W. Edwards, Whig, is followed by Dr. Jacob M. Early, Democrat, and he in turn by Dan Stone, Whig. John Calhoun replies to Stone. Lincoln follows Calhoun, and Richard M. Quinton replies to Lincoln. All are legislative candidates.Sangamo Journal, 16 July 1836; Speech at a Political Rally in the Court House at Springfield, Illinois, 11 July 1836, CW, 1:49-50.