Stephen Douglas And Abraham Lincoln Debates
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Stephen douglas and abraham lincoln debates. Douglas and abraham lincoln during the 1858 illinois state election campaign as among the most significant. This video examines the lincoln douglas debates of 1858 looking at the who. Springfield even 162 years after their historic debates stephen douglas and abraham lincoln are still going at it. The lincoln douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger abraham lincoln and the incumbent stephen a.
And the question of slavery is once again at the center of the debate. Part of a series on american history concentrating on the causes. Douglas in a campaign for one of illinois two united states senate seats. Douglas had highly variable views of the issue of slavery.
Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between stephen a. Time and time again lincoln made that point that a house divided could not stand. Douglas and republican challenger abraham lincoln during the 1858 illinois senatorial campaign largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. Abraham lincoln and stephen douglas met at each of illinois 7 congressional districts for the debates which preceded the election for u s.
And going on to analyse their impact. 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. Lincoln douglas debates historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between stephen a. Douglas may have argued that slavery was already in a dying face and it had reached its natural limits hence.