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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... pledged myself to you on every stump in Illinois in 1854, I pledged myself to the people of other States, North and South--wherever I spoke-and in the United States Senate and elsewhere, in every form in which I could reach the public ...
... pledged myself to you on every stump in Illinois in 1854, I pledged myself to the people of other States, North and South--wherever I spoke-and in the United States Senate and elsewhere, in every form in which I could reach the public ...
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... pledge himself to fight all the remaining years of his life for? Can Judge Douglas find any body on earth that said that any body else should form a Constitu- tion for a people ? [A voice, “Yes.“] Well, I should like you to name him ; I ...
... pledge himself to fight all the remaining years of his life for? Can Judge Douglas find any body on earth that said that any body else should form a Constitu- tion for a people ? [A voice, “Yes.“] Well, I should like you to name him ; I ...
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... pledge was distinctly made that the people of Kansas should be left not only free , but perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions to suit themselves ; and the question arose , when the Lecompton Constitution ...
... pledge was distinctly made that the people of Kansas should be left not only free , but perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions to suit themselves ; and the question arose , when the Lecompton Constitution ...
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... pledge, that the people of Kansas should be left perfectly free to form and regulate their institutions to suit themselves. And yet, while no man can arise in any crowd and deny that I have been faithful to my principles, and redeemed ...
... pledge, that the people of Kansas should be left perfectly free to form and regulate their institutions to suit themselves. And yet, while no man can arise in any crowd and deny that I have been faithful to my principles, and redeemed ...
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... redeemed in good faith every pledge I have made to you ? Then, my friends, the question recurs, whether I shall be sustained or rejected ? If you are of opinion that Mr. Lincoln will advance the interests of Illinois better than I 28.
... redeemed in good faith every pledge I have made to you ? Then, my friends, the question recurs, whether I shall be sustained or rejected ? If you are of opinion that Mr. Lincoln will advance the interests of Illinois better than I 28.
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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