Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen a DouglasCarefully recorded by reporters in 1858, the debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln resulted in a win by Douglas in his campaign for U.S. Senate. In contrast to Douglas's Popular Sovereignty stance, Lincoln stated that the country could not survive as half-slave and half-free states. The Lincoln-Douglas debates drew the attention of the entire nation and set the stage for Lincoln's successful 1860 race for the United States Presidency. |
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... the leading advocate of the Nebraska bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers : “ That is. a question for the Supreme Court.
... the leading advocate of the Nebraska bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers : “ That is. a question for the Supreme Court.
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It is no answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil, and hence should not be tolerated. You must allow the people to decide for themselves whether it is a good or an evil. You allow them to decide for themselves whether they ...
It is no answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil, and hence should not be tolerated. You must allow the people to decide for themselves whether it is a good or an evil. You allow them to decide for themselves whether they ...
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But you may ask me, what are these rights and these privileges? My answer is, that each State must decide for itself the nature and extent of these. rights. Illinois has decided for herself. We have decided that 11.
But you may ask me, what are these rights and these privileges? My answer is, that each State must decide for itself the nature and extent of these. rights. Illinois has decided for herself. We have decided that 11.
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I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. Now who, in all this country, has ever found any of our friends of Judge, Douglas's way of thinking, and who have acted upon this main question, ...
I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. Now who, in all this country, has ever found any of our friends of Judge, Douglas's way of thinking, and who have acted upon this main question, ...
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His answer to this point, which I have been arguing, is, that he never did mean, and that I ought to know that he never intended to convey the idea, that he wished the “people of the free States to enter into the Southern States and ...
His answer to this point, which I have been arguing, is, that he never did mean, and that I ought to know that he never intended to convey the idea, that he wished the “people of the free States to enter into the Southern States and ...
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