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Editorial: Prospects of the Democracy – 2
Editorial: The Congressional Gentleman – 2-3
Editorial: The John Brown Inquiry – 3
Political News – 3
A Fearful Indian Massacre – 3-4
Threatened Attack of Indians on Denver City – 4
Indian Movements on the Plains – Pursuit of the Kiowa Braves – 4
Police Reports – 4

Supplement to the New York Times

Book Review: “The Origin and Preservation of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” by Charles Darwin – 5-6
Political: The Canvas in Kentucky – 6-7
Where Shall the Seceders Go? Speech of Hon. W.L. Yancey – 7
Another Secessionist Manifesto. Letter from Hon. R. Barnwell Rhett, of South Carolina – 7

[rustbucket]

Perhaps it would be useful to post some articles from newspapers other than the New York Times. The Times, then as now, gave its own slant to the news.

Here is the Richmond enquirer of Richmond, Virginia of June 1, 1860.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024735/1860-06-01/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=06%2F01%2F1860&index=3&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Democrat+Democratic+Democrats+DEMOCRATS+Douglas+RICHMOND+Richmond&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F01%2F1860&ortext=democrat+douglas+richmond&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

Here is the June 1, 1860, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat of St. Paul, Minnesota Territory reporting Senator Douglas’s speech to the Senate May 15 & 16, 1860:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016751/1860-06-01/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=06%2F01%2F1860&index=12&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=DEMOCRAT+Democratic+Democrats+Douglas+DOUGLAS&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F01%2F1860&ortext=democrat+douglas+richmond&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

Here is the Clarksville Chronicle of Clarksville Tennessee which offers another insight into the politics of the day:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88061076/1860-06-01/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F01%2F1860&sort=relevance&date2=06%2F01%2F1860&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=1&words=democratic+democrats+Douglas+Richmond&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=democrat+douglas+richmond&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=2

The Jefferson Democrat of Chardon, Ohio. Here I discover that Lincoln apparently won the popular vote for Senator against Douglas in 1858, but it was the state legislature that officially decided who won (column 6). Never heard that about the 1858 Lincoln vs Douglas contest before:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028083/1860-06-01/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=06%2F01%2F1860&sort=relevance&date2=06%2F01%2F1860&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=4&words=Democrat+Democratic+Democrats+DOUGLAS+Douglas+RICHMOND&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=democrat+douglas+richmond&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1