E.451.91 Copyright, 1907, Current Literature Publishing Company THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS CONTENTS PAGE Lincoln and Douglas. By Professor Robert JOINT DEBATE WITH DOUGLAS-CONCLUDED: Fourth Joint Debate, at Charleston-Con- Fifth Joint Debate, at Galesburg. October 7, Sixth Joint Debate, at Quincy. October 13, Seventh and Last Joint Debate at Alton. Octo- SPEECHES. (March 1, 1859, to September 30, 1859): The "Moral Climate Line" of Douglas.· Lin- coln's Speech at Chicago on the Night of the Municipal Election. March 1, 1859 Douglas's "Popular Sovereignty" the Mask of Nationalized Slavery. Speech at Columbus, "A Shot over the Line." An Address to Ken- PREFACE THE present volume contains Senator Douglas's Reply, and Mr. Lincoln's Rejoinder in the Fourth Joint Debate, held at Charleston, and the last three debates. While the forensic contest with Douglas was formally closed at Alton on October 15, 1858, it was, as a matter of fact, continued throughout the next year: by Douglas in a speech-making and Presidential fence-repairing tour through the South and in an article in Harper's Magazine; and by Lincoln in speeches at Chicago, Columbus, and Cincinnati. These three addresses of Lincoln are comprised in the present volume, as well as an address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, in which he attacks slavery as the enemy of free labor. The introductory note by Professor Robert Allyn, contrasting the characters and oratorical styles of Lincoln and Douglas as revealed in these post-Debate speeches, is taken from "The Lincoln Memorial," and here presented by permission of the editor, Osborn H. Oldroyd. |