Annotation
[1] ALS, IHi
[2] William Butler. Hardin had been nominated the Whig candidate for congress in the Seventh District by the convention at Pekin on May 1.
[3] At Jacksonville, on October 6, Morgan County Whigs paid the election bet at a barbecue. Sangamon County gave Hardin a majority twice as large as his majority in Morgan County.
[4] See ``Address to the People of Illinois,'' March 4, 1843.
[5] Lincoln refers to the cavalry broadswords which were to have been used in his duel with Shields. See ``Memorandum,'' September 19, 1842, supra.