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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... admit that it was. I am not master of language ; I have not a fine education ; I am not capable of entering into a disquisition upon dialectics, as I believe you call it ; but I do not believe the language I employed bears any such ...
... admit that it was. I am not master of language ; I have not a fine education ; I am not capable of entering into a disquisition upon dialectics, as I believe you call it ; but I do not believe the language I employed bears any such ...
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... admits the right of the negro woman to marry the white man . In other words , his doctrine that the negro , by Divine law , is placed on a perfect equality with the white man , and that that equality is recognized by the Declaration of ...
... admits the right of the negro woman to marry the white man . In other words , his doctrine that the negro , by Divine law , is placed on a perfect equality with the white man , and that that equality is recognized by the Declaration of ...
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... admit a free State with a population of 35,000 , and require 93,000 in a slaveholding State . My principle is to recognize each State of the Union as independent , sovereign and equal in its sovereignty . I will apply that principle not ...
... admit a free State with a population of 35,000 , and require 93,000 in a slaveholding State . My principle is to recognize each State of the Union as independent , sovereign and equal in its sovereignty . I will apply that principle not ...
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... admitting her becomes irrepealable, and thus the controversy terminates forever; if, on the other hand, the people of Kansas shall vote down that proposition, as it is now generally admitted they will, by a large majority, then from ...
... admitting her becomes irrepealable, and thus the controversy terminates forever; if, on the other hand, the people of Kansas shall vote down that proposition, as it is now generally admitted they will, by a large majority, then from ...
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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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