Lincoln at Peoria : the Turning Point

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Intro; Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; I. On the Road to the Springfield Speech; Lincoln and Douglasâ#x80;#x94;the Early Years; Helping Congressman Yates; Preparation to Fight Kansas-Nebraska; Senator Douglas Returns to Illinois; Speeches and Debates; Campaigning for Free-Soil; II. Springfield, Peoria, and Beyond; On to Peoria; Peoria Speech; The End of the 1854 Debates; The End of the Campaign; III. The Kansas-Nebraska Act: The Context; Douglasâ#x80;#x99;s Motives; Insertion of â#x80;#x9C;Inoperative and Voidâ#x80;#x9D;; The Chase Appeal; The Opposition; The Whigs; Pushing Passage; Protesting Passage. IV. The Peoria Speech: The Ideas and ArgumentsThe Founders and the Declaration of Independence; National Expansion and Compromise; The Compromise of 1850; Popular Sovereignty and Slavery; Race and Prejudice; Nationhood and Union; Principle and Policy; V. The Road from Peoria; Unintended Consequences of Kansas-Nebraska; Election Results and Realignment in Illinois; The 1854â#x80;#x93;1855 Senate Campaign; Realignment and the Republican Party; Bleeding Kansas; The 1856 Bloomington Convention; VI. Challenging Dred Scott, the Supreme Court, and Douglas; The Republican Reaction; The 1858 Senate Campaign. The Lincoln-Douglas DebatesThe Presidential Campaign; VII. Peoria Characterizes the Lincoln Presidency; Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; Preserving the Union; Slavery and Equality; Union, Morality, and Reality; The South; Douglas and Lincoln; The Bible and the World; VIII. Coda; IX. The Peoria Speech and the Historiansâ#x80;#x99; Record; Full Text of Speech at Peoria, Illinois; Acknowledgments; Milestones in the Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover; Discover more