Wells Colton and Baker for plaintiffs and Lincoln for defendant argue case of Davis v. Harkness et al. before Supreme Court. Case is submitted.Record.

Lincoln deposits $61.50, and borrows $588 from Robert Irwin & Co., signing note for that sum in principal and interest, which is credited to his account.Irwin Ledger.

"Mrs. Mosley" buys dollar's worth of nails and charges to Lincoln's account.Irwin Ledger and Journal.

Lincoln writes Simeon Ryder about his chancery suit against Daniel Stringer and heirs of Edward Mitchell. On November 30, 1843, Logan & Lincoln obtained decree against Stringer in favor of Ryder for former's debt of $300 with interest at 7 per cent from January 1, 1836.Abraham Lincoln to Simeon Ryder, 16 February 1844, CW, 1:332.

[Illustrative of feeling between Whigs and Democrats in Springfield are these lines from Register: "Lincoln, another member of the Junto . . . is our jester and mountebank. . . . We have had him appointed a candidate for Clay elector. This we hope will buy him off from being a candidate for Congress. . . . We intend to send Lincoln to Linder's county (Coles) to make speeches. Lincoln is a long-legged varmint, and great at jumping . . . out of the windows of the State House. . . . He can make a speech which is all length and height like himself, and no breadth or thickness."]

Lincoln draws $15 cash from his account for pocket money.Irwin Ledger.

Whig meeting is held in court house in afternoon. Lincoln's speech in reply to Judge Pearson, dealing mainly with currency and bank issues, is applauded. Lincoln probably attends another meeting in evening.Sangamo Journal, 28 March 1844; Speeches in Virginia, Illinois, 22 February 1844, CW, 1:332-33.

A Virginia Van Buren man described Lincoln's speech in letter to "Register": " `Aunt Becky' felt it her duty to deliver herself of a soul stirring harangue. She opened her wise head—`broke up the fountains of the great deep' of natal depravity; and rained `a horrible tempest' of billingsgate, and vulgar party vituperation on the devoted head of Van Buren." After another speech, " `Aunt Becky' [Lincoln's 1842 nom de plume] kindly dismissed the coons till 9 o'clock next morning, when—dear old pious soul—she would like to hold a sort of love feast with them."Register, 15 March 1844.

"On the morning of the 23rd, addresses were received from Mr. Killpatrick and Mr. Lincoln. They portrayed the absurdities of locoism and the soundness of Whig principles."Sangamo Journal, 28 March 1844.

Lincoln has trunk rack of his buggy repaired ($1) at carriage shop.Obed Lewis Account Books.

Lincoln writes praecipe and bond for plaintiff in Johnson v. Wickersham. Photocopy.