Responding to an earlier speech by Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln addresses an audience in the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois on the troubles in Utah and Kansas.  He focuses, however,  on the recent Dred Scott decision.  Lincoln pledges that Republicans will not resist the decision but predicts that it will be soon overturned because it was "erroneous." (By Matthew Pinsker)

The Illinois Central Railroad convinced a judge to set aside an earlier directed verdict against the company in a fee dispute with their attorney, Abraham Lincoln.  The jury, however, quickly found for Lincoln, awarding him $4,800 for his work in the McLean County tax case. (By Matthew Pinsker)

Abraham Lincoln sued the Illinois Central Railroad company in order to obtain a $5,000 legal fee for his work in the McLean County tax case.  The company did not initially contest the suit and Lincoln received a directed verdict in his favor. (By Matthew Pinsker)

Abraham Lincoln and his legal partner William H. Herndon met with Frank Blair from Missouri in their law offices in Springfield, Illinois.  The trio discussed plans to convince leading border state newspapers such as the Missouri Democrat and Louisville Journal  to support the Republican Party in the election of 1860.  (By Matthew Pinsker)

In Chicago on legal business, Abraham Lincoln addresses a Republican Party meeting in the city that will endorse the nomination of "Long" John Wentworth, longtime editor of the Chicago Democrat, as the organization's nominee for mayor. (By Matthew Pinsker)