The Lincoln-Douglas debates in Freeport, Quincy, and…

October 1858 CE

The Lincoln-Douglas debates in Freeport, Quincy, and Alton have drawn drew especially large numbers of people from neighboring states, as the issue of slavery is of monumental importance to citizens across the nation.

Newspaper coverage of the debates is intense.

Major papers from Chicago send stenographers to create complete texts of each debate, which newspapers across the United States reprint in full, with some partisan edits.

Newspapers that support Douglas edit his speeches to remove any errors made by the stenographers and to correct grammatical errors, while they leave Lincoln's speeches in the rough form in which they had been transcribed.

In the same way, pro-Lincoln papers edit Lincoln's speeches, but leave the Douglas texts as reported.

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Alton Madison Illinois United States View →

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Abraham Lincoln View → Stephen A. Douglas View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Illinois, State of (U.S.A.) View →

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