LINCOLN-LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DOUGLAS DEBATESDEBATES

By: Michaela Carter & Angela Owens

SummarySummary The Lincoln-Douglas The Lincoln-Douglas

debate was the debate debate was the debate between Stephen A. between Stephen A. Douglas, the democratic Douglas, the democratic incumbent, and incumbent, and Abraham Lincoln, the Abraham Lincoln, the republican challenger. republican challenger.

Lincoln challenged Lincoln challenged Douglas for the Douglas for the senatorial seat that led senatorial seat that led to a series of open-air to a series of open-air debates over slavery.debates over slavery.

The debate took place The debate took place in 1858 in Illinois.in 1858 in Illinois.

How did this event help How did this event help lead to the civil war?lead to the civil war?

Douglas won the senate seatDouglas won the senate seat Douglas’s response to the Douglas’s response to the

Freeport Doctrine worsened the Freeport Doctrine worsened the split between the northern and split between the northern and southern democratic party.southern democratic party.

This also showed Lincolns talent, This also showed Lincolns talent, which made him a popular which made him a popular candidate for the 1860 election.candidate for the 1860 election.

Primary sourcePrimary source ““My principles are the same My principles are the same

everywhere. I can proclaim them everywhere. I can proclaim them alike in the North, the South, alike in the North, the South, the East, and the West. My the East, and the West. My principles will apply wherever principles will apply wherever the Constitution prevails and the Constitution prevails and the American flag wavesthe American flag waves. . ””

-Senator Stephen A. Douglas-Senator Stephen A. Douglas

• “My main object was to show, so far as my humble

ability was capable of showing to the people of

this country, what I believed was the truth that

there was a tendency , if not a conspiracy among

those who have engineered this slavery question for the

last four or five years, to make slavery perpetual and

universal in this nation.”

-Abraham Lincoln

SECONDAY SOURCESECONDAY SOURCE

This is William H. Pierce account of the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in Peoria, Illinois on October 16, 1854.

Holograph manuscript, ca. 1900. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)

BibliographyBibliography Freeport DoctrineFreeport Doctrine. (2010). In . (2010). In Encyclopædia BritannicaEncyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 24, 2010, from Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved October 24, 2010, from Encyclopædia Britannica

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