"The Charleston Debate," Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, September 21, 1858

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The Charleston Debate
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"The Charleston Debate," Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, September 21, 1858, p. 2: 1.
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"Who Furnishes the Audiences?" Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, September 23, 1858

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Who Furnishes the Audiences?
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"Who Furnishes the Audiences?" Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, September 23, 1858, p. 1: 2.
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"Exhausted to the Dregs," New York Herald, October 13, 1858

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"Exhausted to the Dregs," New York Herald, October 13, 1858, p. 4: 3.
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"All Aboard For Ottawa!," Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, August 21, 1858

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"All Aboard For Ottawa!," Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, August 21, 1858, p. 1: 1.
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Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, United States Senate, January 26, 1830
Debate Over Increase of the Army, House of Representatives, January 9, 1847
Debate Over Thanks to Gen. Taylor and Army Resolution, US Senate, February 3, 1847
Abraham Lincoln, Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico, January 12, 1848
Abraham Lincoln to William Hernden, June 22, 1848
David Wilmot’s Speech in the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, August 3, 1848
Debate over the River and Harbor Bill, US Senate, August 18, 1852
New York Times, “Congressional Corruption,” January 10, 1857
New York Times, “The Tariff Bill,” January 16, 1857
New York Times, “The Charleston Press on the Death of Preston S. Brooks,” February 4, 1857
New York Times, "The Joint Committee to Notify the President and Vice-President Elect," February 14, 1857
New York Times, “Corruption in Congress,” February 17, 1857
New York Times, “How a Gentleman is Appreciated by Proslavery Fanatics,” March 18, 1857
New York Times, “Mr. Marcy on the Sumner Assault,” September 2, 1857
New York Times, “South Carolina Senator,” October 12, 1857
Washington (DC) National Era, "The Union," October 15, 1857
New York Times, “A New Bankrupt Law,” November 2, 1857
New York Herald, "Kansas as a Slave State," January 7, 1858
New York Times, “Douglas’ Kansas Speech,” March 24, 1858
Boston (MA) Herald, “Kansas as it Passed the Senate,” March 26, 1858
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Congressional," June 15, 1858
- Recollection by John M. Palmer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
New York Times, “The War Begun,” December 10, 1858
New York Herald, “Another Grand Scheme of Annexation,” January 22, 1859
New York Herald, “Sham Retrenchment,” January 27, 1859
San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The Douglas and Fitch Row in Congress,” February 18, 1859
New York Times, “The Mint,” February 24, 1859
San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The National Disgrace of “Honorable” Squabbling,” February 25, 1859
New York Herald, “The Next Presidential Election,” April 10, 1859
New York Times, “The Telegraph and the Presidency,” September 9, 1859
New York Times,“Sham Apologies,” December 13, 1859
Chicago (IL) Press & Tribune, “Who are the Disorganizers?,” January 31, 1860
Boston (MA) Advertiser, “The Power to Compel Witnesses,” February 24, 1860
Carlisle (PA) Herald, "Hazlett and Stevens,” March 14, 1860
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Admission of Kansas,” April 13, 1860
New York Times, “Party Contests,” April 28, 1860
Ripley (OH) Bee, “The Admission of Kansas,” May 10, 1860
(Jackson) Mississippian, “Kansas in the Senate,” May 23, 1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Who Began It?,” September 21, 1860
Ripley (OH) Bee, “Southern Pranks,” November 15, 1860
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “A Remarkable Statement,” December 20, 1860
Elihu B. Washburne to Abraham Lincoln, January 30, 1861
New York Herald, “Greeley for Senator, Why Not?,” February 3, 1861
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “How are the Mighty Fallen!,” February 4, 1861
Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “The Irrepressible Conflict,” February 13, 1861
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861, Washington, DC
(Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “The Policy of the Administration,” March 30, 1861
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Feat of the Zouaves,” May 11, 1861
Entry by Kate Stone, July 4, 1861
New York Times, “How to Treat the Vallandighams,” July 13, 1861
New York Herald, “Lovejoy Rebuked,” July 14, 1861
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “A Good Idea,” July 19, 1861
Savannah (GA) News, “Abe Lincoln Assassinated!,” August 13, 1861
Raleigh (NC) Register, “Arrest of a Traitor,” August 14, 1861
The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, March 4, 1865
Recollection by Frederick Douglass, Inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4,1865, Washington, D.C.
Andrew Johnson, "Message to Congress respecting the condition of affairs in the Southern States," December 18, 1865
Lyman Trumbull, Introduction of the Civil Rights Bill, U.S. Senate, January 29, 1866
Willard Saulsbury, Debate on the Civil Rights Bill, U.S. Senate, January 29, 1866
An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and to furnish the means for their Vindication, April 9, 1866
Conclusions, Majority Report of the Joint Committee of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on Reconstruction, June 8, 1866, Washington, D.C.
Conclusions, Majority Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, U.S. Congress, June 16, 1866
James M. Ashley, Motion to Impeach the President of the United States, floor of the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., January 7, 1867.
United States Congress, "An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States," March 2, 1867.
United States Congress, "An Act regulating the Tenure of certain Civil Offices," March 2, 1867
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Election Outcome & Douglas (Zarefsky, 1990)

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David Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990), 209.
But it was not the debates themselves that eroded Douglas’s position. Many southerners regarded the dispute between Douglas and [President James] Buchanan as a personal feud rather than a question of principle, and they admired the scrappy nature of Douglas’s attacks on Lincoln. In the opinion of one of his biographers, even in 1859-60 Douglas offered more to the South than did any other leader who had a chance in his own section. Mainly, what Douglas could offer was the prospect of further southward expansion, where the climate might have been more hospitable to the spread of slavery.
Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate
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