| Monday, August 28, 1854.Jacksonville, IL and
Carrollton, IL.
| In Carrollton, Lincoln delivers a campaign speech on behalf of
Whig Party candidate Richard Yates. Yates and his opponent, Democrat Thomas L.
Harris, vie for the sixth congressional district seat. A Democratic newspaper
reports, "[Lincoln] was for the restoration [of] the Missouri compromise, which
did not please near all the [Henry] Clay whigs; and he was against
the repeal of the fugitive slave law, which was very unsatisfactory to the
abolitionists." Daily Alton Telegraph (IL),
31 August 1854, 2:2; Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield), 1
September 1854, 2:2; Illinois State Register (Springfield), 1
September 1854, 2:4;
Speech at Carrollton, Illinois, 28
August 1854, CW, 2:227. |