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Title: The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924, ed
Subjects: Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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appointed him assistant secre-tary, which position he resigned to become a candidatefor Congress, to which he was elected in 1882. He servedcontinuously from the Forty-eighth to the Fifty-eighthCongress. While serving his twelfth term, Mr. Hitt diedon September 20,1906 at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. (Phonographic Magazine, VII, 205; June 1, 1893) AN INTERVIEW WITH HON. R. E. HITT When I was a lad of nearly fifteen, I saw some little pamphletswhich were handed me by a man named Pickard, in 1850, in advocacyof phonetic reform, and it was through the advertisements in themthat I procured the phonographic manuals. From these works Iobtained enough knowledge of the principles and rules of shorthandto begin to use it. The first fruitful use of it was in taking notes of lectures at college.After graduating at Mt. Morris College I went to New Orleans, con-stantly practicing the art and gaining speed. In the spring of 1857I returned to Illinois, then removed to Chicago and began to report
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ROBERT R. HITT From a daguerreotype made in 1858, and loaned by Mrs. Hitt, of Washington, D C REPORTING THE DEBATES 79 court cases. In 1858 the contest between Stephen A. Douglas and Mr.Lincoln for the Senate brought Mr. Lincoln into national view.Seven debates were arranged between them and I was employed toreport them on the Republican side. There was no one to assist in reporting but a young man namedLaraminie from Montreal, who was a skillful reader of shorthand andcould transcribe my notes with perfect accuracy. At Quincy, Illinois,where one of the debates was held, he took the train for Chicago,which left before the debate was finished, carrying with him my notesof the earlier part of the debate, and I first saw the work printedin a newspaper. Mr. Lincoln never saw the report of any of thedebates. I mention this as it was often charged at that time in thefury of partisan warfare that Mr. Lincolns speeches were doctoredand almost re-written before they were printed; that this was

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