Lincoln votes for Hugh L. White electors for President. White leads Van Buren in New Salem 65 to 34; 719 to 376 in Springfield; and 1464 to 903 in Sangamon County. Van Buren, however, carries state 18,459 to 15,240.Election Returns.

Lincoln represents plaintiff Joel Johnson in a forcible detainer case, Johnson v. Gray before justice of the peace Benjamin S. Clement. Lincoln takes a $6 fee in board at Johnson's hotel.Stuart & Lincoln fee book.

[Logan Circuit Court convenes at Postville.]

Logan & Lincoln have nine cases called in one-day term of Christian County Court. Five cases are dismissed, two continued, and they obtain small judgments in two others. Rountree and Lincoln defend Jesse Langley and others in two indictments for riot. On motion of State's Attorney Conkling, capias is awarded to next term and sheriff takes bail of defendants for $100 each.Record.

Taylor v. Wright, bill to foreclose mortgage, is continued. Logan & Lincoln represent complainant. Lincoln, Harris, and Baker lose Cabot v. Regnier when jury finds defendant not guilty.Record.

[Mason Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Bath.]

Lincoln buys dollar's worth of clothing material for Mrs. Lincoln.Irwin Ledger and Journal.

Lincoln writes and signs petition to review in Hawks v. Landes.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Election day. Lincoln votes for Whig presidential electors.Election Returns.

[Special session of Illinois legislature adjourns.] About this date the Lincolns must have left for home. Orville H. Browning, in his Diary, describes eight-day trip from Lexington to Quincy, Illinois, in summer of 1850. The Lincolns doubtless spend about same time to get from Lexington to Springfield.

Election day. Lincoln is 162nd voter to appear; 587 votes are cast in his precinct. He heads list of candidates, receiving 385 votes, one more than Yates. Lincoln and Logan are elected to legislature. Election Returns.

Lincoln writes and files in Sangamon Circuit Court foreclosure bill in Irwin & Lincoln v. Sidener. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln takes note for $80 from Milton Davis of Vermilion County. Maturity date is December 25, 1857, interest rate 10 per cent per annum (see March 28, 1859). Inventory Lincoln Estate.

Lincoln writes and signs a receipt for a $5 fee he received from James O'Neal. Lincoln represented O'Neal in the Vermilion County Circuit Court appeal case of O'Neal v. McArdle, a suit that resulted from a transaction involving a horse. The court ruled for defendant John McArdle. Judge's Notes, [October 1857 Term], O'Neal v. McArdle, Box 102; Order, 4 November 1857, O'Neal v. McArdle, Circuit Court Record F 1856-1858, 412; Receipt, 7 November 1857, O'Neal v. McArdle, Box 40, all in Vermilion County Circuit Court, Vermilion County Courthouse, Danville, IL.

He writes pardon petition for George High, sentenced in 1855 to three years in Champaign Circuit Court for horse stealing. Twenty-seven Vermilion County citizens sign. Petition to William H. Bissell for Pardon of George High, [7 November 1857], CW, 2:426.

The day after the presidential election, Lincoln remains at Springfield's "telegraph office" until 4:45 a.m. By early afternoon, it appears that Lincoln has secured enough votes "to put the general result beyond all doubt." In the evening, Lincoln proceeds to the capitol's House chambers where he announces "the news of a Republican victory." Lincoln remarks, "We expected it would be so, and so it is as it is pretty generally these times." New York Daily Tribune, 8 November 1860, 8:2.

President converses with John Hay about opening of cotton trade. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Recognizes Friedrich Kuhne as consul of Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar for State of New York. National Intelligencer, 11 November 1861.

Receives recommendation for new military district of Kansas, Arkansas, and Indian country with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth under command of Col. James Law, 19th New York Militia. Wade and others to Lincoln, 7 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Buys $8,300 worth of seven-thirty Treasury notes. New-York Daily Tribune, 8 November 1861, 4:6; National Republican (Washington, DC), 8 November 1861, 2:4.

Endorses Secretary of State William H. Seward's note proposing to present two foreign ministers: "All right A.L." Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, [7 November 1861], CW, 5:17.

Entertains Col. Hawkins in evening; serves toast and tea. Bookmen's Holiday, 96.

At cabinet meeting Asst. Sec. Fox convinces President that Ellet's rams belong under control of Navy. Gustavus V. Fox, Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, 2 vols. (New York: n.p., 1918), 2:147.

President in White House conference with Secs. Welles and Stanton , and Gen. Halleck. Transfers all war vessels on Mississippi to Navy. Order to Alfred W. Ellet, 7 November 1862, CW, 5:490.

Gen. Catharinus P. Buckingham of War Dept. delivers General Orders No. 182 removing Gen. McClellan from command of Army of Potomac. Philadelphia News, 23 December 1862; Committee on Conduct of War, Report (1863), 1:650.

President asks Sec. Chase: "Please send me the latest [New Orleans] 'Picayune' and 'True Delta' you can lay your hands upon." Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 7 November 1862, CW, 5:489.

[Mrs. Lincoln arrives in Boston and takes room at Parker House. Boston Journal, 10 November 1862.]

President confers with Judge Adv. Gen. Holt in morning about courtmartial cases. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Recognizes J. H. Goebler, Jr., as consul of Prussia at Boston, Carl Meising as consul of Principality of Schaumburg Lippe for U.S., and Juan Pico y Villanueva as consul of Spain at New York. Washington Chronicle, 12 November 1863.

Thurlow Weed presents to President four-point plan concerning amnesty. Thurlow W. Barnes, ed., Life of Thurlow Weed including his Autobiography and a Memoir, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 2:438.

President directs Gen. Butler to avoid clash between U.S. military forces and state militia during election in New York. Butler, Correspondence, 5:329.

Orders five-day leave, with pass and transportation to and from Philadelphia, for Lt. A. W. White. Order Concerning A. W. White, 7 November 1864, CW, 8:95.

Deposits April salary warrant for $2,022.33 and July salary warrant for $1,981.67 in Riggs Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.

Elizabeth S. Comstock, Quaker minister, pays evening call; reads to Lincoln from Book of Isaiah, 9th to 13th verses. "Mr. Lincoln was highly gratified with the interview, and before taking her leave she kneeled in prayer, while he joined in the reverend attitude." Armory Square Hospital Gazette (Washington, DC), 26 November 1864.