1. Second debate at Freeport

    · Lincoln–Douglas Debate Square, Freeport, Illinois, United States

    Second debate at Freeport
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    At Freeport, Lincoln posed the question that elicited Douglas's Freeport Doctrine, with important consequences for the 1860 election. The date is supplied by the debate schedule on the same source.

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