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In his speeches during the great Lincoln-Douglas debate we have seen this idea frequently advanced, and so, in his later public utterances as President.
Twenty-seven years before the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the "Tariff of Abominations" had brought up the question of the right of the Southern states to secede. Calhoun had set up his famous doctrine, and Webster, in his "Second Reply to Hayne," had knocked it down.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.% The term of Douglas as senator from Illinois was to expire on March 4, 1859. The legislature whose duty it would be to elect his successor was itself to be elected in 1858. The Democrats, therefore, announced that if they secured a majority of the legislators, they would reelect Douglas.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates Lincoln was constantly showing that Douglas's use of the term "popular sovereignty" must be understood in the light of the whole history of the slavery question; that it meant one thing what Douglas intended it to mean if the history of the question before 1850 were left out of sight; but that it meant a wholly different thing if the steady encroachment of the slave power from the Missouri Compromise of 1820 on were taken into account.
The Great Lincoln-Douglas Debate Rivals for the U.S. Senate Lincoln's "House-Divided-against-Itself" Speech An Inspired Oration Alarming His Friends Challenges Douglas to a Joint Discussion The Champions Contrasted Their Opinions of Each Other Lincoln and Douglas on the Stump Slavery the Leading Issue Scenes and Anecdotes of the Great Debate Pen-Picture of Lincoln on the Stump Humors of the Campaign Some Sharp Rejoinders Words of Soberness Close of the Conflict.
And full two years before Lincoln defined the attitude of his party in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, it had gone forth from the Iowa Convention, that the Republican party was not a sectional party; that Abolition was not a part of the Republican creed; and that, while they would arrest the further extension of slavery, Republicans had no desire to interfere with the institution in places where it already existed.
If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting, and following such decision as a rule of political action? Are you in favor of acquiring additional territory, in disregard of how such acquisition may affect the nation on the slavery question?" Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p. 90.
The Lincoln-Douglas campaign continued all the autumn, and the country became acquainted with the obscure lawyer who had persisted in his purpose to run against Douglas contrary to the counsels of the leaders of his party. However, Douglas was reëlected to the Senate, to the great chagrin of both Lincoln and the President.
The reports of the Lincoln-Douglas debates had produced a profound sensation in the West. They were printed in large numbers and scattered broadcast as campaign literature. Some Eastern men, also, had been alert to observe these events. William Cullen Bryant, the scholarly editor of the New York Evening Post, had shown keen interest in the debates.
I visited at their houses and heard them tell what Lincoln had said when he sat at table where I then sat. I listened long to Lincoln stories, and "and that reminds me" was often on the lips of those I loved. All the tales told by the faithful Herndon and the needlessly loyal Nicolay and Hay were current coin, and the rehearsal of the Lincoln-Douglas debate was commonplace.
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