| Monday, March 8, 1858.Clinton, IL and
Springfield, IL.
| Lincoln sits as judge pro-tem on 20 cases in DeWitt Circuit
Court, writing "Judge's Remarks" in judge's docket. Record. Returning to Springfield by train, he
receives $250 from Daniel Doup, for whom he has chancery case on file, and
writes receipt. Photocopy. Lincoln writes to
Republican Congressman Owen Lovejoy, of Princeton, Illinois, and claims that he
has "an inside view" about the Democrats' plan to persuade a Republican to run
against Lovejoy. Lincoln warns some "have been urgently tempted by the enemy;
and I think it is still the point for you to guard most vigilantly." Lincoln
asks Lovejoy to consider the information "confidential; not that there is
anything wrong in it; but that I have some highly valued friends who would not
like me any the better for writing it." Abraham Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy, 8
March 1858, CW, 2:435-36. |