Ka kammala wannan magana: A lokacin zaben 'yan majalisar dattijai na Amirka a shekara ta 1858 a Illinois, Stephen A. Douglas, wanda yake zama a wannan otal a kai a kai sa'ad da yake Chicago, ya ba da jawabi a ranar 9 ga Yuli, 1858 wanda ya haɗa da tsauta wa Ibrahim Lincoln
Jawabin da aka raba a majalisar. Lincoln, wanda yake a Chicago don halartar wani taron budewa na Kotun Gundumar Amurka, ya bayyana a otel din a wannan daren don bayar da hujja. Wannan, a wata ma'ana, shine farkon kamfen ɗin kowane mutum don majalisar dattijai.