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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... principle If he has any parental feeling , well may he cling to it . That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision squatter sovereignty squatted out of existence , tumbled down ...
... principle If he has any parental feeling , well may he cling to it . That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision squatter sovereignty squatted out of existence , tumbled down ...
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... principle so that our cause may have assistance from his great ability , I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle . But clearly , he is not now with us - he does not pretend to be - he does not promise ever to be . Our cause ...
... principle so that our cause may have assistance from his great ability , I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle . But clearly , he is not now with us - he does not pretend to be - he does not promise ever to be . Our cause ...
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... principle which recognizes the right of the people to decide for themselves has been submitted in its place. Fellow-citizens : While I devoted my best energies--all my energies, mental and physical-to the vindication of the great principle ...
... principle which recognizes the right of the people to decide for themselves has been submitted in its place. Fellow-citizens : While I devoted my best energies--all my energies, mental and physical-to the vindication of the great principle ...
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... principle, would give it their cordial support. The Crittenden-Montgomery bill was as fair and as perfect an exposition of the doc- trine of popular sovereignty as could be carried out by any bill that man ever devised. It proposed to ...
... principle, would give it their cordial support. The Crittenden-Montgomery bill was as fair and as perfect an exposition of the doc- trine of popular sovereignty as could be carried out by any bill that man ever devised. It proposed to ...
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... principle in the, Kansas-Nebraska bill, and perhaps I did, as much as any living man in the enactment of that bill, thus establishing the doctrine in the public policy of the country. I then defended that principle against assaults from ...
... principle in the, Kansas-Nebraska bill, and perhaps I did, as much as any living man in the enactment of that bill, thus establishing the doctrine in the public policy of the country. I then defended that principle against assaults from ...
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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