The Quincy debate is notable for Lincoln’s description of the Republican Party.  As one of the people behind the rise of the Republican Party, Lincoln was very qualified to speak about it.  He had inside knowledge.  He describes the Party by talking about people in the party and how they feel about slavery.  He says, “I will add this, that if there be any man who does not believe that slavery is wrong… that man is misplaced, and ought to leave us.  While, on the other hand, if there be any man in the Republican party who is impatient over the necessity of springing from its actual presence, and is impatient of the constitutional guarantees thrown around it, and would act in disregard to these, he too is misplaced standing with us.” It is important to know that Lincoln, and other Republicans, believed that the Constitution was set up to get rid of slavery at some point in time.  Just wipe it out.  In this statement Lincoln is pledging his allegiance to the Constitution, stating that slavery is morally wrong, and assuring Illinois voters that the Republicans are not abolitionists.  He assured voters of all three.