Freeport High School - Polaris Yearbook (Freeport, IL)

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1 Z 1 2 Another Page in Freeport's History ATURDAY, August 26, 1922, was a big day for our little city. That day Freeport kept open house to Stephenson County and to Illinois. If she had aspired to welcome her country and the whole world, none would have called her presumptuous. For she had an honorable thing to offer for inspection-a little city, dressed in its best, in gayest holiday mood, united, and co-operating fully to honor the great open Forum held here August 27, 1858. Here, almost sixty-five years ago, the immortal Lincoln and his distinguished rival, Douglas, clashed swords in political debate. Here, Lincoln put to Douglas a question, known in history as the Freeport Question : Can the people of a U. S. territory, in any law- ful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the U. S., exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation ofa state constitution? The result you know. Mr. Douglas's affirmative answer made him a U. S. senator, made Lincoln president in 1860, and changed the course of national events. Proud little Freeport, last August! The day was celebrated by a spirited debate CHarrison and Schuylerj at Taylor's Park, by a notable public dinner, a remarkable museum, a splendid civic parade, band concerts, fire-works, throngs of visitors, and, in the evening, by a little pageant at the Lincoln-Douglas Boulder, whose main feature was a replica ofthe original debate of 1858. The details ofthe pageant were most painstakingly planned and the sequences presented were: Part I. En Route. 1. A gay procession of citizens going to the debate, in picturesque dress ofthe period, some in carriages and wagons and on horseback, many more on foot. Lincoln, in a Canestoga wagon with moderator Turner and court re- porter Bob Hitt, Douglas, in a barouche, with Colonel Mitchell and other friends, preceded or followed by the Hoat of 32 states, mounted herald, and escorts, band and many citizens. 2. At the Lincoln-Douglas Boulder. Part II. August 1858. 1. Band. 2. Voice declaiming: Free Speech, the Bulwark of Free Government 3. Debate. 4. Band.