[Voyage inspires Lincoln to thoughts about how lake boats could be lifted over shoals. In subsequent weeks, in leisure time after election, he designs buoy. [See also March 10, 1848, and May 22, 1849.]Application for Patent on an Improved Method of Lifting Vessels over Shoals, 10 March 1849, CW, 2:32-36.]

Globe stops en route to Chicago.ISLA—Files.

Mrs. Lincoln buys $2 in groceries and pair of kid slippers, $1.25.Irwin Ledger and Journal.

Lincoln delivers a speech in the evening concerning the upcoming presidential election. A local newspaper notes that his remarks are "very sensible and illustrative."Beardstown Gazette (IL), 25 October 1848, 2:1-2.

[Lincoln has appointment to speak at Jacksonville but postpones his address until tomorrow.Register, 27 October 1848.]

Lincoln and Murray McConnel speak. Lincoln tries to unite Whigs and Free Soil men. McConnel accuses him of misrepresenting his constituents by his attitude on war. Lincoln refuses to believe that majority favored war, whereupon McConnel cites Whig defeat in last congressional election. "Lincoln has made nothing by coming to this part of the country to make speeches," writes Register correspondent.Debate at Jacksonville, Illinois, 21 October 1848, CW, 2:11-13.

"Lincoln attempted . . . to make a defence of his course in Congress," reports Register November 3, 1848, "when he was most signally `used up' by Ferguson. Lincoln beat a retreat to Springfield, swearing that Billy's home-thrusts were`unconstitutional and unnecessary'."

Lincoln presides over meeting of Menard County bar. Herndon is member of committee on resolutions.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Meeting of Menard bar concludes.Record.

Lincoln buys 75¢ pair suspenders.Irwin Ledger.

Lincoln and Gersham Jayne sell for $100 their land near Huron bought in 1836, to Pleasant Armstrong and John Yardly of Petersburg.Warranty Deed of Lincoln and Jayne to Armstrong and Yardly, 27 October 1848, CW, 2:13-14.

Lincoln and Dr. A. G. Henry address Whig meeting at one o'clock.Illinois Journal, 27 October 1848.

Lincoln and Henry deliver addresses at Magnolia in afternoon. Lincoln then goes on alone to Hennepin where he speaks at seven o'clock.Illinois Journal, 27 October 1848.