[788] Globe, 35 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 1256.
[789] Ibid., p. 1243.
[790] Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 371.
[791] Ibid., pp. 369-370.
[792] Letter to J.B. Dorr, June 22, 1859; Flint, Douglas, pp. 168-169.
[793] Letter to J.L. Peyton, August 2, 1859; Sheahan, Douglas, pp. 465-466.
[794] Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September, 1859; see Debates, p. 250.
[795] On his return to Washington after the debates, Douglas said to Wilson, "He [Lincoln] is an able and honest man, one of the ablest of the nation. I have been in Congress sixteen years, and there is not a man in the Senate I would not rather encounter in debate." Wilson, Slave Power in America, II, p. 577.
[796] It does not seem likely that Douglas hoped to reach the people of the South through Harper's Magazine, as it never had a large circulation south of Mason and Dixon's line. See Smith, Parties and Slavery, p. 292.
[797] Harper's Magazine, XIX, p. 527.