Debate Commentary from Newspapers
Ottawa Debate

Alton Weekly Courier (R)

• The Great Debate between Lincoln and Douglas (8/26/1858)

The Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. (R)

• The Ottawa Debate (8/24/1858)

Republican and Telegraph, Dixon, Illinois. (R)

• Douglas at Ottawa (9/30/1858)

Freeport Weekly Bulletin (D)

• Discussion at Ottawa (8/26/1858)
• Look Well to Your Ticket (10/14/1858)

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

• The Forgery Admitted — The Fraud Confessed (8/31/1858)
• Lincoln and Douglas at Ottawa (8/31/1858)
• The Ottawa Fraud — How Lincoln is to be Assailed (8/31/1858)
• Lincoln and Douglas (9/7/1858)
• An Old Trick (9/7/1858)
• Douglas and Lincoln — Negro Equality (9/14/1858)
• Stephen Arnold Douglas — The Truth is Not in Him (9/28/1858)

The Jacksonville Sentinel (D)

• Douglas and Lincoln at Ottawa — The "Dead Lion" Skins the "Living Dog" (8/27/1858)
• Lincoln Afraid to Acknowledge the Principles of His Party (8/27/1858)
• The Republicans Catching at Straws (8/27/1858)
• Trying to Screen Lincoln's Defeat (8/27/1858)
• The Journal's Charge of Forgery (9/3/1858)
• Douglas' Reply to Lincoln at Ottawa (9/3/1858)

Rockford Republican (R)

• The Great Debate at Ottawa (8/26/1858)
• Douglas and Lincoln (9/9/1858)

Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois. (R)

• The Great Debate Between Lincoln and Douglas at Ottawa, August 21, 1858 (8/24/1858)
• Unparalleled Mendacity (8/25/1858)
• Incidents at Ottawa (8/25/1858)
• Rich and Rare Development (8/25/1858)
• Douglas Apologizes (8/26/1858)
• The Forgery Confessed (8/26/1858)
• The Bold Forgery of Mr. Douglas — The Flounderings of the Wounded (8/27/1858)
• A Threat Coming Home (8/28/1858)
• The Register Doubly Guilty (8/28/1858)
• The Forgery Tracked Home to the Illinois State Register (8/28/1858)
• More of the Ottawa Forgery — Harris and Lanphier in a Split Stick (8/30/1858)