Record Data
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
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.
