Abraham Lincoln And Stephen Douglas Debate
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Abraham lincoln and stephen douglas debate. Douglas and republican challenger abraham lincoln during the 1858 illinois senatorial campaign largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between stephen a. They became legendary and the popular conception of what happened tends to veer toward the mythical. The abraham lincoln encyclopedia.
18 1858 debate between the two men that opened with these words from lincoln who was vying for douglas senate seat. The seven lincoln douglas debates in 1858 took place during a senate race yet came to define national political issues and made lincoln a rising star. Douglas by gordon leidner of great american history the following article was originally published in the lincolnian the newsletter of the lincoln group of the district of columbia in vol. Da capo press inc.
Douglas and abraham lincoln during the 1858 illinois state election lincoln opened the campaign on an ominous. I appear before you to day for the purpose of discussing the leading political topics which now agitate the. The 7th and final debate between senatorial candidates abraham lincoln and stephen douglas was held on october 15 1858 in alton illinois. The lincoln douglas debates also known as the great debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between abraham lincoln the republican party candidate for the united states senate from illinois and incumbent senator stephen douglas the democratic party candidate.
The immense painting in the governor s second floor office depicts a sept. Douglas in a campaign for one of illinois two united states senate seats. The lincoln douglas debates a series of seven public confrontations between abraham lincoln and stephen douglas took place in the summer and fall of 1858. Full text of the ottawa debate follows.
The lincoln douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger abraham lincoln and the incumbent stephen a. Library of congress abraham lincoln worked hard to secure the nomination of the young republican party to run for the senate seat held by stephen a. Lincoln douglas debates series of seven debates between the democratic senator stephen a.