With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Scrapbook, 1858

Lincoln’s debate scrapbook (030.00.00)

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Lincoln prepared this scrapbook of newspaper clippings of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas shortly after the close of the 1858 Senate campaign. The scrapbook begins with a clipping of Lincoln’s famous “House Divided” speech, which he gave at the close of the Republican state convention when he had been nominated to run for the U.S. Senate. He deliberately selected debate texts taken from politically friendly newspapers. The clippings of his own speeches were from the Republican Chicago Press & Tribune, and Douglas’s from the Democratic Chicago Times. Lincoln occasionally made notes in the margins when he felt the reporting required changes or comment.

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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”


Lincoln prepared this scrapbook of newspaper clippings of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas shortly after the close of the 1858 Senate campaign. The scrapbook begins with a clipping of Lincoln’s famous “House Divided” speech, which he gave at the close of the Republican state convention when he had been nominated to run for the U.S. Senate. He deliberately selected debate texts taken from politically friendly newspapers. The clippings of his own speeches were from the Republican <em>Chicago Press & Tribune</em>, and Douglas’s from the Democratic <em>Chicago Times</em>. Lincoln occasionally made notes in the margins when he felt the reporting required changes or comment.