Lincoln and Douglas hold their sixth, and most acrimonious, debate in Quincy, Illinois

In the "nastiest" encounter in the series, the sixth debate in Quincy, Illinois featured accusations and counter accusations on the character of the opponents.
Source Citation
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 237.
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Campaigns/Elections
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Quincy, IL
Date
Quincy (IL) Whig, "The Friends of Hon. Abraham Lincoln," October 13, 1858
Recollection by Carl Schurz, Quincy Debate, October 13, 1858
Recollection by Horace White, Quincy Debate, October 13, 1858
Recollection by David Patterson Dyer, Quincy Debate, October 13, 1858
Abraham Lincoln, Sixth Debate with Stephen Douglas, Quincy, Illinois, October 13, 1858
Quincy (IL) Whig, "Lincoln Gets Douglas Down!," October 15, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Quincy Debate," October 15, 1858
Chicago (IL) Times, “Sixth Great Debate,” October 15, 1858
Quincy (IL) Herald, “The Discussion of Wednesday,” October 16, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Rascality Confessed," October 18, 1858
New York Evening Post, “Political,” October 20, 1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Freemen, Remember," October 29, 1858
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