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Excerpt from “Republican State Convention,” Jacksonville (Ill.) Sentinel, June 25, 1858.
Excerpt from “The Republican Convention,” Quincy Daily Whig and Republican, June 21, 1858.
Charles Wilson to Abraham Lincoln, May 31, 1858, in The Lincoln Papers, ed. David C. Mearns (2 vols., Garden City, 1948), I, 208.
Abraham Lincoln, “‘A House Divided’: Speech at Springfield, Illinois,” June 16, 1858, in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick, 1953), II, 461.
Abraham Lincoln to John L. Scripps, June 23, 1858, in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick, 1953), II, 471.
“Mr. Lincoln Showing His Spots,” Springfield Illinois State Register, June 26, 1858.

Illinois newspaper masthead ticket, Quincy Daily Whig and Republican, Sept. 30, 1858.
“Preparing to Colonize,” Chicago Press and Tribune, Sept. 6, 1858.
“How to Vote for Lincoln,” Freeport Weekly Journal, Oct. 14, 1858.
Norman Judd to Elihu Washburne, Sept. 20, 1858, in Elihu Washburne Papers (Volume 4), Library of Congress.
Norman Judd to Elihu Washburne, Oct. 22, 1858, in Elihu Washburne Papers (Volume 4), Library of Congress.
Henry C. Whitney to Abraham Lincoln, Oct. 14, 1858, in Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.
Excerpt from “Illegal Voting—An Explanation,” Chicago Press and Tribune, Oc. 29, 1858.
Excerpt from “More Indications of Fraud,” Chicago Press and Tribune, Oct. 25, 1858.
Excerpt from “The Result in Peoria,” Peoria Daily Transcript, Nov. 4, 1858.

Joseph Gillespie to William H. Herndon, Jan. 31, 1866, in Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln, ed. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (Urbana, 1998), 184.
William H. Herndon to Truman Bartlett, July 19, 1887, in The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon, ed. Emanuel Hertz (New York, 1938), 191—92.
“Congressional Eloquence,” North American Review, 52 (Jan. 1841), 109–48
“Of Gesture,” in The Columbian Orator, by Caleb Bingham (Boston, 1832), 19–29.

Excerpt from “What Would Be the Effect of Negro Equality?,” Springfield Illinois State Register, Oct. 9, 1858.
Abraham Lincoln, “Speech at Chicago,” July 10, 1858, in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick, 1953), 499–502
Thomas A. Marshall to Abraham Lincoln, July 22, 1858, in Abraham Lincoln Papers (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Abraham Lincoln, “Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois,” Sept. 18, 1858, in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick), III, 145–46.
Abraham Lincoln, “Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois,” Oct. 15, 1858, in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick), III, 315.