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Rh advocates. He is the champion of anti-slavery in the North. It is the one idea that has brought him forward as the candidate of his party. . . ..

[Daily Whig, Quincy, 111., July 21, 1858]

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

From its beginning the Illinois campaign attracted widespread attention. It meant more than state issues and state results. The fate of "squatter sovereignty," the triumph or defeat of the administration, the presidential nominations to be made in the next national conventions, indeed, the future of the Union was felt to depend in no small degree upon the outcome of these debates. Eastern newspapers at once dispatched special reporters to the scene and they outlined the situation for their readers.

[New York Semi-Weekly Post, August 18, 1858]

POLITICS IN ILLINOIS

, August 13, 1858

The interest in politics increases here as the campaign progresses. Illinois is regarded as the battle-ground of the year, and the results of