Debate Commentary from Newspapers
General Commentary on the Campaign

Alton Weekly Courier (R)

• The Grand Douglas Reception (7/21/1858)
• Douglas (8/5/1858)

The Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois (R)

• Douglas and the Democracy (8/25/1858)

Republican and Telegraph, Dixon, Illinois. (R)

• Douglas at the South (9/9/1858)
• Douglas Coming to His Milk (10/14/1858)
• Six-Pounder (10/14/1858)
• Conflicting Opinions by Mr. Douglas (10/14/1858)
• $52,000 for Douglas (10/28/1858)

Freeport Weekly Bulletin (D)

• Commentary on the Journal (3 articles) (8/5/1858)
• The Battle in Illinois (8/5/1858)
• Senator Green, of Missouri (8/5/1858)
• A Friend of the Greasers (8/26/1858)
• Bolters and Lincoln (8/12/1858)
• The Douglas Case in Wisconsin (8/12/1858)
• Douglas' Prospects (8/12/1858)
• The Alliance (8/15/1858)
• Turn Out (8/19/1858)
• The Creed of Black Republicanism (8/19/1858)
• Down on the Irish (8/26/1858)
• Who Are Opposed to Foreigners? (8/26/1858)
• Press the Matter (8/26/1858)
• To the Bolters (8/26/1858)
• We Are Bound to Win (8/26/1858)
• Triumph of Popular Sovereignty (8/26/1858)
• Lincoln Refuses to Answer (8/26/1858)
• Henry Clay vs. Lincoln (9/2/1858)
• Commentary on the Dixon Telegraph (9/2/1858)
• Hon. Owen Lovejoy (9/2/1858)
• Coming to the Truth (9/2/1858)
• Republican Platform (9/2/1858)
• The Name (9/9/1858)
• Lincoln (2 articles) (9/16/1858 and 10/14/1858)
• Republican Creed (9/16/1858)
• Henry Clay's Speech (9/16/1858)
• Response to the Journal (3 articles) (9/23/1858 and 9/30/1858)
• Let the Democracy Speak Out (9/23/1858)
• Republican Combinations (9/26/1858)
• Truth Fitly Spoken (9/30/1858)
• How it Is (10/7/1858)
• Foreigners Read (10/7/1858)
• The Decency Party (10/7/1858)
• Abe Lincoln (10/14/1858)
• Enough (10/14/1858)
• For Political Effect (10/14/1858)
• Frauds (10/14/1858)
• The Proof is Here (10/14/1858)

Freeport Weekly Journal (R)

• How to Vote for Lincoln (10/14/1858)
• Lincoln (10/14/1858)
• Never a Line (10/14/1858)
• Response to the Bulletin (10/14/1858)

Weekly North-Western Gazette, Galena, Illinois. (R)

• Lincoln's Challenge to Douglas (8/3/1858)
• Mr. Douglas and the Canvass (8/3/1858)
• Messrs. Lincoln and Douglas (8/10/1858)
• An Unprofitable Battle (8/31/1858)
• The Canvass in Illinois (8/31/1858)
• The Contrast (8/31/1858)
• No Chance for a Fight (9/14/1858)
• Popular Sovereignty (9/14/1858)
• Progress of the Canvass (9/14/1858)
• The Buchaneers and Douglas (9/14/1858)
• The Douglas Controversy (9/14/1858)
• Douglas and Lincoln (9/14/1858)
• The Position of the Three Parties Upon the Slavery Question (9/21/1858)
• Abram Lincoln (9/28/1858)
• The President's Opinion of Douglas (9/28/1858)
• Stephen Arnold Douglas — The Truth is Not in Him (9/28/1858)
• Lincoln or Douglas (10/5/1858)
• Moral Bravery (10/5/1858)

The Jacksonville Sentinel (D)

• Germans of Will County (8/27/1858)
• Political Clergymen (8/27/1858)
• Lincoln's Progressive Republicanism Indorsed by Fred Douglas, the Negro (8/20/1858)
• Bear in Mind the True Issue (9/17/1858)
• By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them (9/24/1858)
• Negro Equality (9/24/1858)

Quincy Daily Whig and Republican (R)

• His Inconsistency (7/23/1858)
• Douglas Charges Against Lincoln — Not One of Them Sustained (9/25/1858)

Rockford Republican (R)

• Douglas' New Dodge (9/2/1858)

Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois. (R)

• A Mighty Man of Valor (8/2/1858)
• Douglas Platform as Illustrated by the Richmond Enquirer (8/2/1858)
• Correspondence Between Lincoln and Douglas (8/2/1858)
• Douglas and the Louisville Journal (8/3/1858)
• Seven Hundredths of a Candidate for the Senate (8/3/1858)
• A Funeral in Preparation (8/4/1858)
• The Quarrel Between Buchanan and Douglas (8/6/1858)
• The Douglasites Out in Favor of Negro Equality (8/7/1858)
• A Douglas Victory (8/9/1858)
• The Douglas Party in Illinois (8/10/1858)
• The Douglas Press in Illinois (8/13/1858)
• Senator Trumbull's Charges (8/14/1858)
• What the Democracy are Fighting For (8/16/1858)
• Douglas Playing Double (8/17/1858)
• Douglas' Great Principle (8/18/1858)
• Where Mr. Douglas Stands (8/20/1858)
• Douglasism-Buchananism (8/21/1858)
• Principles, Not Men (8/26/1858)
• The Two Despotisms — Catholicism and Slavery — Their Union and Identity (8/30/1858)
• The Handwriting on the Wall (8/31/1858)
• Why Douglas Opposed the Lecompton Constitution (8/31/1858)
• The Louisville Journal on Douglas and Lincoln — Opinion of the Home Organ of Henry Clay (9/7/1858)

Central Illinois Gazette, West Urbana, Illinois. (R)

• Political (3 articles) (8/4/1858, 9/15/1858, 9/29/1858)