Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Mechanicsburg, Illinois, November 4, 1859

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Source citation:

Speech at Mechanicsburg, Illinois, November 4, 1859, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 3: 493, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.

Original source:

(Springfield) Illinois State Journal

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham

Type:

Speech

Date Certainty:

Exact

Transcriber:

Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler

Adapted by Don Sailer, Dickinson College

Transcription

The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

November 4, 1859

On Friday night Mr. Lincoln addressed the people of Mechanicsburg in a most able and eloquent speech. He arraigned the Democratic party for the agitation which now exists throughout the country showing that they and they alone, were responsible for it all, and urged that sectionalism and wrangling on the slavery question would never be brought to an end until the power of the so-called Democratic party was broken in the nation. Douglas, the prime mover in the conspiracy must be rebuked, and in his own home.

Major Topics

Republican Party

People

Douglas, Stephen Arnold

Places

Mechanicsburg, IL

Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Mechanicsburg, Illinois, November 4, 1859

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