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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Second joint debate, at Freeport, August 27, 1858. (search)
oticed whether or not they had been adopted by any State Convention. In 1856, a debate arose in Congress between Major Thomas L. Harris of the Springfield District, and Mr. Norton, of the Joliet District, on political matters connected with our State, in the course of which, Major Harris quoted those resolutions as having been passed by the first Republican State Convention that ever assembled in Illinois. I knew that Major Harris was remarkable for his accuracy, that he was a very conscientioMajor Harris was remarkable for his accuracy, that he was a very conscientious and sincere man, and I also noticed that Norton did not question the accuracy of this statement. I therefore took it for granted that it was so, and the other day when I concluded to use the resolutions at Ottawa, I wrote to Charles H. Lanphier, editor of the State Register, at Springfield calling his attention to them, telling him that I had been informed that Major Harris was lying sick at Springfield, and desiring him to call upon him and ascertain all the facts concerning the resolutions
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Third joint debate, at Jonesboro, September 15, 1858. (search)
et Trumbull violated his pledge, and played a Yankee trick on Lincoln when they came to divide the spoils. Perhaps you would like a little evidence on this point. If you would, I will call Col. James H. Matheny, of Springfield, to the stand, Mr. Lincoln's especial confidential friend for the last twenty years, and see what he will say upon the subject of this bargain. Matheny is now the Black Republican or Abolition candidate for Congress in the Springfield District against the gallant Col. Harris, and is making speeches all over that part of the State against me and in favor of Lincoln, in concert with Trumbull. He ought to be a good witness, and I will read an extract from a speech which he made in 1856, when he was mad because his friend Lincoln had been cheated. It is one of numerous speeches of the same tenor that were made about that time, exposing this bargain between Lincoln, Trumbull and the Abolitionists. Matheny then said: The Whigs, Abolitionists, Know Nothings
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Fourth joint debate, at Charleston, September 18, 1858. (search)
worried out Lincoln's friends, and compelled them to drop him and elect Trumbull in violation of the bargain. I desire to read you a piece of testimony in confirmation of the notoriously public facts which I have stated to you. Col. James H. Matheny, of Springfield, is, and for twenty years has been, the confidential personal and political friend and manager of Mr. Lincoln. Matheny is this very day the candidate of the Republican or Abolition party for Congress against the gallant Major Thos. L. Harris, in the Springfield District, and is making speeches for Lincoln and against me. I will read you the testimony of Matheny about this bargain between Lincoln and Trumbull when they undertook to abolitionize Whigs and Democrats only four years ago. Matheny being mad at Trumbull for having played a Yankee trick on Lincoln, exposed the bargain in a public speech two years ago, and I will read the published report of that speech, the correctness of which Mr. Lincoln will not deny :
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Fifth joint debate, at Galesburgh, October 7, 1858. (search)
ation of it was traced to the three--Lanphier, Harris and Douglas. Whether it can be narrowed in an apparently successful upon the occasion, both Harris and Douglas have more than once since then beehim? Take the eels out and set him again ; so Harris and Douglas have shown a disposition to take ts out of that stale fraud by which they gained Harris's election, and set the fraud again more than Globe of that date. On the 9th of August, Harris attempted it again upon Norton in the House ofbe a fraud from the beginning He, Lanphier and Harris, are just as cozy now, and just as active in tphier, then, as now, the central organ of both Harris and Douglas, continues to din the public ear wthere was a conspiracy between Mr. Lanphier, Mr. Harris, and myself to perpetrate a forgery. Now, bConvention. That I had seen them quoted by Major Harris in a debate in Congress, as having been ado the time and place of their adoption; that Major Harris being extremely ill, Charles H. Lanphier ha[5 more...]
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Sixth joint debate, at Quincy, October 13, 1858. (search)
Republican party. I had noticed that Major Thomas L. Harris, a member of Congress from the Springfto use the fact in this canvass, I wrote to Major Harris to know on what day that Convention was helharge a forgery on Charles H. Lanphier or Thomas L. Harris. No man on earth, who knows them, and knof tone, as gentlemen, than Mr. Lanphier and Mr. Harris. Any man who attempts to make such charges as been traced up so that it lies between him, Harris and Lanphier. There is little room for escapen what he states in his newspaper. He desires Harris to be taken as a man of vast credibility, and med that he learned about these resolutions by Harris's attempting to use them against Norton on theself attempted it upon Trumbull a month before Harris tried them on Norton — that Harris had the oppHarris had the opportunity of learning it from him, rather than he from Harris. I now ask his attention to that part Harris. I now ask his attention to that part of the record on the case. My friends, I am not disposed to detain you longer in regard to that mat[1 more...]