In the joint debates between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, the latter carried the most popular applause, but the former made the deeper and more lasting impressions. Douglas was greeted with the loudest cheers, but when Lincoln closed, the people seemed sober and serious. As a result of the canvass, Mr. Lincoln had a majority of four thousand of the popular vote of the State, but it is stated that the legislative districts were so construed that Douglas received a majority of the ballots in the legislature, and was, therefore, returned to the United States Senate. The debates brought Mr. Lincoln to the front as an able and eloquent champion of human liberty and prepared the way for his nomination and election to the presidency of the United States.
WILLIAM D. ARMSTRONG,
Of the Armstrong Case. Defended by Lincoln in 1858. This picture was taken late in life, as an every-day farmer.
HANNAH ARMSTRONG,
Wife of Jack Armstrong, and mother of "Duff," whom Lincoln defended.