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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... Legislature can exclude slavery from any United States terri- tory . This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the Territories with slaves , without , danger of losing them as property , and thus to enhance the chances ...
... Legislature can exclude slavery from any United States terri- tory . This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the Territories with slaves , without , danger of losing them as property , and thus to enhance the chances ...
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... Legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory , they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State , or the people of a State , to exclude it . Possibly this is a mere omission ; but who can ...
... Legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory , they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State , or the people of a State , to exclude it . Possibly this is a mere omission ; but who can ...
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... Legislature, pending which all these questions were thoroughly canvassed and discusssed, and the nominees of the different parties instructed in regard to the wishes of their constituents upon them. When that elec- tion was over, and ...
... Legislature, pending which all these questions were thoroughly canvassed and discusssed, and the nominees of the different parties instructed in regard to the wishes of their constituents upon them. When that elec- tion was over, and ...
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... Legislature for each, and conferred upon each Legislature the power to make all local and domestic institutions to suit the people it represented, without interference from any other State or from the general Congress of the Union. If ...
... Legislature for each, and conferred upon each Legislature the power to make all local and domestic institutions to suit the people it represented, without interference from any other State or from the general Congress of the Union. If ...
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... Legislatures blotted out, and to have one consolidated government, and a uniformity of domestic regulations in all the States, by which I suppose it is meant, if we raise corn here, we must make sugar-cane grow here too, and we must 19.
... Legislatures blotted out, and to have one consolidated government, and a uniformity of domestic regulations in all the States, by which I suppose it is meant, if we raise corn here, we must make sugar-cane grow here too, and we must 19.
Contents
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Speech of Mr Douglasat Chicago July 9 185816 | 66 |
Second Joint Debate at Freeport August 27 1858 | 83 |
Seventh and Last Joint Debate at Alton Oct 15 1858 | 93 |
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