Lincoln–Douglas debates
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Dou
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Abraham Lincoln by Byers, 1858 crop
A U.S. post stamp, issued in 1958, commemorating the Lincoln and Douglas debates
The House Divided Speech was an address given by senatorial candidate and future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Spring
Lincoln–Douglas debates
…that Lincoln was an abolitionist for saying that the United States Declaration of Independence applied to both blacks and whites. Lincoln argued in his House Divided Speech that Douglas was part of a conspiracy to nationalize slavery. Lincoln said that ending the Missouri Compromise ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska…
Former Illinois House of Representatives chamber, the site of the speech.
Abraham Lincoln O 77 matte collodion print