As late even as 1858, when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate, when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate, and the excitement was for many months intense, there was never, from either side, an intimation of the corrupt use of a farthing to influence the result.
Stevenson highlights the integrity of the electoral process during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, emphasizing the absence of corruption.
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