This Week in History October 13, 1858 The sixth Lincoln-Douglas debate is held in Quincy, Illinois. October 15, 1858 The seventh and last Lincoln-Douglas debate is held in Alton, Illinois. October 16, 1854 Lincoln speaks in Peoria, Illinois, about the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union." --Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859

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