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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I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or ...
I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or ...
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He said that a friend of our Senator Douglas had been talking to him, and had among other things said to him : “Why, ... We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle, there was another name for the same thing ...
He said that a friend of our Senator Douglas had been talking to him, and had among other things said to him : “Why, ... We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle, there was another name for the same thing ...
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it, and expects to win his battle on that decision, which says that there is no such thing as Squatter Sovereignty ; but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory, and all the other men in the Territory may be opposed to it, ...
it, and expects to win his battle on that decision, which says that there is no such thing as Squatter Sovereignty ; but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory, and all the other men in the Territory may be opposed to it, ...
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He thinks the defeat of it, was a good thing, and so do I, and we agree in that. Who defeated it? A voice - “ Judge Douglas.” Mr. Lincoln-- Yes, he furnished, himself, and if you suppose he controlled the other, Democrats that went with ...
He thinks the defeat of it, was a good thing, and so do I, and we agree in that. Who defeated it? A voice - “ Judge Douglas.” Mr. Lincoln-- Yes, he furnished, himself, and if you suppose he controlled the other, Democrats that went with ...
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I know that I never meant any such thing, and I believe that no fair mind can infer any such thing from anything I have ever said. Now in relation to his inference that I am in favor of a general consolidation, of all the local ...
I know that I never meant any such thing, and I believe that no fair mind can infer any such thing from anything I have ever said. Now in relation to his inference that I am in favor of a general consolidation, of all the local ...
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