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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But," said opposition members, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slavery.” " Not we," said the friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment.
But," said opposition members, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slavery.” " Not we," said the friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment.
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Possibly this is a mere omission; but who can be quite sure, if McLean or Curtis had sought to get into the opinion a declaration of unlimited power in the people of a State to exclude slavery from their limits, limits as Chase and Mace ...
Possibly this is a mere omission; but who can be quite sure, if McLean or Curtis had sought to get into the opinion a declaration of unlimited power in the people of a State to exclude slavery from their limits, limits as Chase and Mace ...
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I have seen the time when all parties did not recognize the right of a people to have slavery or freedom, to tolerate or prohibit slavery, as they deemed best; but claimed that power for the Congress of the United States, regardless of ...
I have seen the time when all parties did not recognize the right of a people to have slavery or freedom, to tolerate or prohibit slavery, as they deemed best; but claimed that power for the Congress of the United States, regardless of ...
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My speech against the Lecompton fraud was made on the 9th of December, while the vote on the slavery clause in that Constitution was not. taken until the 21st of the same month, nearly two weeks after. I made my speech against the ...
My speech against the Lecompton fraud was made on the 9th of December, while the vote on the slavery clause in that Constitution was not. taken until the 21st of the same month, nearly two weeks after. I made my speech against the ...
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He then notifies the slaveholding States. to stand together as a unit and make an aggressive war upon the free States of this Union With a view of establishing slavery in them all; of forcing it upon Illinois, of forcing it upon New ...
He then notifies the slaveholding States. to stand together as a unit and make an aggressive war upon the free States of this Union With a view of establishing slavery in them all; of forcing it upon Illinois, of forcing it upon New ...
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