Excerpt from The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858: Freeport, Illinois, Aug. 27, 1858 Freeport (i11.) Aug. 22. - The sixty-fourth anniversary of the sec ond lincoln-douglas debate will be celebrated here next Saturday with patriotic and political features. It was on Aug. 26, 1858. That Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met in Freeport in the sec ond of their series of political de bates that resulted in Douglas's election to the United States Senate, followed two years later by Lin coln's election as President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.