Lincoln is introduced to his audience by president of Wisconsin Agricultural Society. He delivers address which newspapers call "dignified and impressive." Illinois State Journal, 5 October 1859.

In evening he speaks extemporaneously at Newhall House. Alexander M. Thomson, A Political History of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI: Casper Co., 1902), 150; Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 30 September 1859, CW, 3:471-82.