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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... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
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... slave State . To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty , is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation . That is what we have to do . How can we best do it ? small ones . Let this be granted . Judge Douglas ...
... slave State . To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty , is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation . That is what we have to do . How can we best do it ? small ones . Let this be granted . Judge Douglas ...
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... Slave States as they chose, and that that principle should never be violated either by fraud, by violence, by circumvention, or by any other means, if it was in my power to prevent it. I now submit to you, my fellow-citizens, wheth- er ...
... Slave States as they chose, and that that principle should never be violated either by fraud, by violence, by circumvention, or by any other means, if it was in my power to prevent it. I now submit to you, my fellow-citizens, wheth- er ...
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... slave States - a war of extermination to be continued relentlessly until the one or the other shall be subdued , and all the States shall either become free or become slave . Now , my friends , I must say to you frankly , that I take ...
... slave States - a war of extermination to be continued relentlessly until the one or the other shall be subdued , and all the States shall either become free or become slave . Now , my friends , I must say to you frankly , that I take ...
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... slavery should not go into the new Territory, where it had not already gone ? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade, by which slaves are sup- plied, might be cut off by Congress ? Why were all these acts ? I might ...
... slavery should not go into the new Territory, where it had not already gone ? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade, by which slaves are sup- plied, might be cut off by Congress ? Why were all these acts ? I might ...
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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