USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The debates took place between August and October 1858. Newspapers reported 12, 000 in attendance at Ottawa, 16, 000 to 18, 000 in Galesburg, 15, 000 in Freeport, 12, 000 in Quincy, and at the last one, in Alton, 5, 000 to 10, 000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Visit this first class facility located on the site of the 1858 Charleston, IL Lincoln-Douglas debate. Take a self-guided tour of the only museum in Illinois retracing the seven senatorial debates of 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.

Detailed explanation-3: -From August to October of 1858, Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois, took on the incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas in a series of seven debates.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the summer and the fall of 1858 two of the most influential statesmen of the late antebellum era, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln faced off in a series of debates focused on slavery as they vied for a United States Senate seat representing Illinois.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois’ two United States Senate seats.