LINCOLN, ABRAHAM and STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Including the Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, Etc.: Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln, in Ohio, in 1859. Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each, at Chicago, at the Times of their Delivery, Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Tall 8vo, 240 x 150mm. (9 1/4 x 6 in.), original publisher's brown cloth, worn, corners, edges and hinges neatly repaired in matching cloth, text foxed (as usual), folding fleece-lined protective box. FIRST ISSUE, with "2" at bottom of page 17 missing and rule missing over the Follett, Foster & Co. imprint on verso of title-page. Monaghan 69. Bookplate of Horace White. A COPY WHICH BELONGED TO HORACE WHITE, A REPORTER WHO ATTENDED THE DEBATES An interesting association copy from the library of Horace White (1834-1916), an eminent journalist who followed Lincoln's career closely from an early date. He first heard Lincoln speak at Peoria in 1854 and supported Lincoln for Senator in 1858. During the Kansas troubles he took a militant anti-slavery stance and helped arm John Brown and his band, but then took a journalist's post at the Chicago Tribune . An anti-slavery Republican, White reported the celebrated debates between Lincoln and Douglas for the Chicago Press and for the Chicago Tribune , and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican convention which nominated Lincoln. White wrote a chapter on the debates for John Locke Scripps campaign biography of Lincoln. Until 1863 he was the Washington reporter for the Chicago Tribune and in later years was a key figure at the New York Saturday Evening Post .
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM and STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Including the Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, Etc.: Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln, in Ohio, in 1859. Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each, at Chicago, at the Times of their Delivery, Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Tall 8vo, 240 x 150mm. (9 1/4 x 6 in.), original publisher's brown cloth, worn, corners, edges and hinges neatly repaired in matching cloth, text foxed (as usual), folding fleece-lined protective box. FIRST ISSUE, with "2" at bottom of page 17 missing and rule missing over the Follett, Foster & Co. imprint on verso of title-page. Monaghan 69. Bookplate of Horace White. A COPY WHICH BELONGED TO HORACE WHITE, A REPORTER WHO ATTENDED THE DEBATES An interesting association copy from the library of Horace White (1834-1916), an eminent journalist who followed Lincoln's career closely from an early date. He first heard Lincoln speak at Peoria in 1854 and supported Lincoln for Senator in 1858. During the Kansas troubles he took a militant anti-slavery stance and helped arm John Brown and his band, but then took a journalist's post at the Chicago Tribune . An anti-slavery Republican, White reported the celebrated debates between Lincoln and Douglas for the Chicago Press and for the Chicago Tribune , and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican convention which nominated Lincoln. White wrote a chapter on the debates for John Locke Scripps campaign biography of Lincoln. Until 1863 he was the Washington reporter for the Chicago Tribune and in later years was a key figure at the New York Saturday Evening Post .
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