The Lincoln-Douglas DebatesComplete texts for all 7 debates between the incumbent Democratic senator from Illinois and the 1858 nominee of the infant Republican party. Paving the way for modern debates between political candidates, the events brought Lincoln (who lost the election) to national prominence and helped propel him to the presidency in 1860. |
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... election that followed, in November of 1858, Lincoln won the popular vote by more than 4,000 votes. However, at the time senators were chosen by state legislatures (changed by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913), without regard to the ...
... election that followed, in November of 1858, Lincoln won the popular vote by more than 4,000 votes. However, at the time senators were chosen by state legislatures (changed by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913), without regard to the ...
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... garnered the Republican nomination for president and won the general election , defeating Douglas and two other can- didates by a large majority of electoral votes . Speech of Abraham Lincoln SPRINGFIELD , JUNE 17 , 1858 X INTRODUCTION.
... garnered the Republican nomination for president and won the general election , defeating Douglas and two other can- didates by a large majority of electoral votes . Speech of Abraham Lincoln SPRINGFIELD , JUNE 17 , 1858 X INTRODUCTION.
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... election . Still , before the election , Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the Senate , requested the leading advocate of the Nebraska Bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Ter- ritory can constitutionally exclude slavery ...
... election . Still , before the election , Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the Senate , requested the leading advocate of the Nebraska Bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Ter- ritory can constitutionally exclude slavery ...
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... election , and then was kicked to the winds . His late joint struggle with the Republicans , against the Lecompton Constitution , involves nothing of the original Nebraska doc- trine . That struggle was made on a point — the right of a ...
... election , and then was kicked to the winds . His late joint struggle with the Republicans , against the Lecompton Constitution , involves nothing of the original Nebraska doc- trine . That struggle was made on a point — the right of a ...
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... election, then to sustain the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in ... election? Plainly enough now,—the speaking out then would have damaged the “per- fectly free” argument upon which ...
... election, then to sustain the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in ... election? Plainly enough now,—the speaking out then would have damaged the “per- fectly free” argument upon which ...
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