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| Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln |
"A RELIC.
Which Brings Up Some
Peculiar Recollections in Hicksville.
Tuesday morning while the teams were busy making the excavation for the pavement on High street, in the square formed by the crossing of Main, they took out the remains or stub of a hickory pole.
Old residents readily recalled that the late Hon. A. P. Edgerton had the pole placed there to float the Democratic colors during the Lincoln-Douglas campaign. It was recalled that during a political meeting a horse became frightened, ran away, and striking the pole, broke his neck.
As the discovery occurred on election day, the find brought forth a fund of stories of the past concerning the great campaign of the two political giants.
Hicksville News."
Defiance Democrat - November 16, 1899
The Lincoln-Douglas debates for President of the United States preceded the 1860 election.
When the votes were tallied, Abraham Lincoln, of the Republican party, obtained all 23 electoral votes from Ohio.
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