Part 89 (1/2)
Lincoln, the challenger, asked Douglas: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text, ed. Harold Holzer (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 26.
both men covered over 4,000 miles: Ibid., p. 20.
marching bands...picnics: Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, pp. 2122, 2425, 28, 3031, 3334, 37.
”all the devoted...for athletic contests”: Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 15.
”the country people...lines in single combat”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 92, 88.
”were the successive...of the nation”: AL's speech, ”Sixth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Quincy, Illinois,” October 13, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 25253.
”On the whole...extreme modest simplicity”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 92.
followed the same rules...Newspaper stenographers: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, pp. 4, 9.
”No more striking...and staying power”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 94.
The highly partisan papers: See The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, pp. 78.
”when Mr. Lincoln...music in front”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, following Ottawa debate, quoted in The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, p. 85.
”excoriation of Lincoln...in shame”: Chicago Times, in ibid.
”both comparatively...Hit him again”: Stephen Douglas's speech, ”First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, pp. 56.
conceded that Douglas...”upon principle, alone”: AL, ”Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” July 17, 1858, in CW, II, p. 506.
”The very notice...political physicians”: Stephen Douglas, quoted in NYTrib, included in AL's reply, ”Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro,” September 15, 1858, in The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Holzer, p. 173.
”Well, I know...if he can”: AL's reply, ”Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro,” September 15, 1858, in ibid., pp. 173, 175.
a small notebook...”pursuit of Happiness”: Ibid., p. 17. Quotation from paragraph two of the Declaration of Independence (1776).
”majestic interpretation...in other ages”: AL, ”Speech at Lewistown, Illinois,” August 17, 1858, quoted in Press and Tribune, Chicago, August 21, 1858, in CW, II, p. 546.
”I care more...in Christendom”: Stephen Douglas's reply, ”Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois,” October 15, 1858, in CW, III, p. 322.
”the doctrine...a slave of another”: AL, ”Speech at Peoria, Illinois,” October 16, 1854, in CW, II, pp. 26566.
”The difference between...these views”: AL, ”Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois,” September 11, 1858, in CW, III, p. 92.
set of Black Laws...on juries: Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 17901860 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1961), pp. 93, 278.
”If you desire...Never, never”: Stephen Douglas's speech, ”First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in CW, III, p. 9.
”the signers...that's the truth”: Stephen A. Douglas's speech, ”Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois,” October 15, 1858, in ibid., p. 296.
”no purpose...the black races”: AL's reply, ”First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois,” August 21, 1858, in ibid., p. 16.
”of making voters...nor to intermarry”: AL's speech, ”Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois,” September 18, 1858, in ibid., p. 145.