Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . f the rope and runup as tar as possible. The custodian at oncebegan the serious climb to reach the stuffedman and found much difficulty in reaching thegoal. But that had to be taken down at onceand was accomplished, and old Horace wascarefully put away in the coal house for fu-ture reference. A few days afterward the ef-figy was found sitting on top of the courthouse cupola, on the south side thereof, whichwas rather significant, as jwlitics divided thecourt house, from the fact that the north halfof the building was occupied by Republicanand the south
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . f the rope and runup as tar as possible. The custodian at oncebegan the serious climb to reach the stuffedman and found much difficulty in reaching thegoal. But that had to be taken down at onceand was accomplished, and old Horace wascarefully put away in the coal house for fu-ture reference. A few days afterward the ef-figy was found sitting on top of the courthouse cupola, on the south side thereof, whichwas rather significant, as jwlitics divided thecourt house, from the fact that the north halfof the building was occupied by Republicanand the south half by Democratic officers. Itproved to be one of the jokes of the was ordered to be taken down by the CountyBoard, but a piece of the pole to which theimage was attached can still be seen in oneof the old prints of the old court house. Dur-ing the succeeding six years the Republicanswere busy organizing and literature profuselycirculated. Lincoln-Douglas Debate.—In 1858 the cele-brated joint debate of Lincoln and Douglas. ^^k)y^ (f/Huc/^^^^u^ HISTORY OF Mcdonough colwty. T7^ occurred, each aspiring to the United StatesSenate. This proved lo be ihe most exoitinKand heated eanipaif;n since 1S4(I. the principalissue being on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, whichinvolved the question of slavery north of theMason and Dixon line, details of which neednot be entered into in this article. SuflBce itto say that the joint discussion enlightenedthe people to the needs of careful legislation,and while Lincoln did not succeed in the Sen-atorial race, yet he had, with other leaders ofthe party, so enlivened the general public withthe principles of freedom that, by the time thegreatest of all political campaigns, that of1S60, had arrived, the people were ready, edu-cated and anxious to be heard through theballot-box. TnK C.\mi.\u;n ok GO.—Earlyin ISfid, in every precinct and city, clubs wereorganized. This continued up to the Repub-lican National convention, which
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