Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Much Ado About Something

Ed Newman
3 min readSep 26, 2018

“My Fellow Citizens: When a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him — at least, I find it so with myself; but when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, Opening words in the first debate, Ottawa, IL.

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