Debate Text from Newspapers
Ottawa Debate

The Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. (R)

• Hon. A. Lincoln's Speech at Ottawa 4 articles (8/25/1858, 8/26/1858, 8/27/1858, 8/28/1858)

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

• Lincoln and Douglas at Ottawa (8/31/1858)
• The Ottawa Fraud — How Lincoln is to be Assailed (8/31/1858)

The Jacksonville Sentinel (D)

• Douglas and Lincoln at Ottawa — The "Dead Lion" Skins the "Living Dog" (8/27/1858)
• Douglas' Reply to Lincoln at Ottawa (9/3/1858)

Quincy Daily Whig and Republican (R)

• Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln at Ottawa 3 articles (8/28/1858, 8/30/1858, 8/31/1858)

Rockford Republican (R)

• Extract from Lincoln's Speech From Ottawa (8/26/1858)

Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois. (R)

• More of the Ottawa Forgery — Harris and Lanphier in a Split Stick (8/30/1858)