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. . . with "selected
quotations"
or "excerpts" of each Debate by B.F. McClerren and Robert Sterling for
the Charleston
Looking for Lincoln: Lincoln-Douglas Museum Information Site .
Full Text from Links
provided by
The Illinois Historical Digitization Projects:
John Nicolay and John Hay, two of Lincoln's
secretaries
while president, compiled available Lincoln writings for an 1894
publication,
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. These works included texts from
the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, and are available from this
website.
Remember the Order of
Speaking Procedure:
. . . The order of speaking and time limit was
as follows: One hour for the first speaker, one and one-half hours for
the
second speaker, a thirty minute rebuttal was then given by the first
speaker.
The speaker arrangement was as follows:
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The Debates
and
Who Spoke First
Ottawa, Aug.
21,
Douglas spoke first
Freeport, Aug
27,
Lincoln spoke first
Jonesboro, Sept.
15
Douglas spoke first
Charleston, Sept.
18
Lincoln spoke first
Galesburg, Oct.
7 Douglas spoke first
Quincy, Oct.
13
Lincoln spoke first
Alton, Oct.
15
Douglas spoke first
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The Candidates displayed in bronze
outside
the Charleston Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The scale of the sculptures are exact
according
to actual height of Stephen A. Douglas (left) and Abraham Lincoln
(right)
The DEBATE
LINKS
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