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Title: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 Historical reenactments
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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niy seal on 20 acres of landowned by Grammer. He named ii afler Preacher Jones. The settlers who came were an uneducated lol foi ihe mostpart and quite superstitious. The Illinois Central R.R.- which laid tracks: wiihin two milesof Joneshoro in Ihe early 1850s. ran inio superstition trouble.A drought occurred and outraged selllers blamed the telegraphlines along Ihe tracks for robbing ihe skies of electricity. The railroad bypassed Joneshoro in ihe firsi place because thetownsfolk did noi want lo spend $50 for a land survey. One of Jonesboros local merchants, Winsiead Davie, had theforesight to realize what a railroad would mean and he laid outa town around Joneshoro Slalion, naming ii for his wile, Anna.An Age Of Dark ViolenceDavie was crippled from birth but refused lo lei his handicapdetent him. He educated himself and in IM7. migrated lojoneshoro from Dover, Tenn. He was nol a violent man. however, like sc many olher ofthe early settlers. Lynching* declined occasionally. Less lhan
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS Pom.,11 by w I IfiY III. IgimIcy Chicago Hiltoriul Society. 15 years before ihe 1858 debaie. armed bands from Kentuckyhad seized a sheriffs posse in Massac Couniy, 111., drowningthe captives. No wonder, then, thai ihe pio-Republican Chicago Journalnoted wilh alarm whispers of a proposed attempt on the partof Missourians and Kcnluckians, who are coming over lo shoutfor Douglas, io pui down Lincoln. There were, in fact, fewRepublicans in Union Couniy iwhich still is a Democraticstronghold). Lincoln did have a few liiends. ihough. He spent the nightwilh David I.. Phillips attorney and land agenl for the 1C. The nighi before the debaie, Ihe Little Giant spoke andpartied in Cairo. Lincoln, meanwhile, arrived al Joneshoro Station aboard Ihe1C and weni lo Phillips home for supper. Later, he visited withnewsmen at a holel in Joneshoro. The morning of Ihe debaie. Lincoln and Phillips took a rideto Williards Landing. 25 miles away on the banks of the Mis-sissilincolndouglasdereelinc

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