Debate Text from Newspapers
Accounts of Speeches by Lincoln and Douglas in Other Cities

Alton Weekly Courier (R)

• Douglas' Chicago Speech vs. his Freeport Speech (9/9/1858)

The Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. (R)

• Conflicting Opinions by Mr. Douglas (10/13/1858)

Republican and Telegraph, Dixon, Illinois. (R)

• Douglas Soliloquizing (9/30/1858)
• Conflicting Opinions by Mr. Douglas (10/14/1858)

Freeport Weekly Bulletin (D)

• Douglas at Clinton (8/12/1858)

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

• Douglas at Galena (8/31/1858)

Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois. (R)

• The "Conspiracy" Charge Renewed and Cliched (8/19/1858)

Lapsley, Arthur Brooks, ed. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.

• Speech of Senator Douglas
• Fragment of a Speech at Edwardsville (9/13/1858)
• Fragment of a Speech at Paris, Illinois (9/8/1858)
• Letter to C. H. Ray (11/20/1858)

Browne, Francis, F. The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: N.D. Thompson, 1886.

• This biography of Lincoln contains speeches of Lincoln relating to the campaign of 1858.