The Galesburg Lincoln, Debater for God (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Galesburg Lincoln, Debater for GodThursday, October 7, 1858, was the most historic day in local his tory. On that day, as all of us know, Abraham Lincoln spoke here. The occasion was his fifth debate with Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln was the Republican candidate for United States senator, Douglas, the Democratic incumbent. They had debated in Ottawa, Clinton, Free port, Charleston. Now they were in Galesburg. The debate took place, all of us will again recall, on the east side of Old Main. Doubtless we have all seen the bronze plaques on that college building commemorating the event.What can we say about the Galesburg Lincoln? What point had he reached in his career? What were his convictions, his bewilderments? Where was he in his grasp of political and moral issues? What was his spiritual stature? Let me suggest some answers. Let me sketch some phases of the living Lincoln as he was driven in a carriage down the mud of Main Street in the Galesburg of 87 years ago, as he came down Broad Street past: the Old First Church, as he stood on a plat form on that October Thursday ostensibly answering Douglas but really speaking to the minds and hearts of many thousands of farmer folk, townsfolk and students - speaking, indeed, to the mind and heart of a nation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.