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Identifier: lincolndouglasde00linc (find matches)
Title: The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924, ed
Subjects: Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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t hear me; but by giving him the close, I felt confidentthat you would stay for the fun of hearing him skin me. The audience signified their assent to the arrangement, andadjourned to 7 oclock p. m., at which time they re-assembled, andMr. Lincoln spoke. —Correspondence of the Illinois Journal, Spring-field, October 21, 1854. SENATOR DOUGLAS OF ILLINOIS The storm center of political agitation, carried to thewest of the Alleghany Mountains in the campaign of 1824,gradually advanced with the spread of the people, untilthe decade between 1850 and 1860 saw it centered inIllinois, mainly through the prominence of SenatorStephen A. Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska question.As chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories,Douglas fathered and pushed to enactment the famouslaw of 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise sofar at it related to the unorganized portion of the Louisi-ana Purchase lying north of 36° 30, and threw it opento slavery or freedom as the future inhabitants might
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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. From a photograph in the eollection of the IlUnois Historical Library, supposed lo have Ijeenmade in 1858. LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS 5 determine under the principle of home rule or popularsovereignty. By this course he brought upon himselfthe denunciation and abuse of all northern people whoopposed the further extension of slave territory. Immediately upon the adjournment of Congress inAugust, 1854, Douglas started for Illinois to defend him-self before his constituents. Before leaving Washington,he said: I shall be assailed by demagogues and fanaticsthere, without stint or moderation. Every opprobriousepithet will be applied to me. I shall probably be hung ineffigy in many places. This proceeding may end my poli-tical career. But, acting under the sense of duty whichanimates me, I am prepared to make the sacrifice. Hereached Chicago September 2d, and took the rostrum inhis own defense at a meeting which he caused to be an-nounced for the following evening. The result malincolndouglasde00linc

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