Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Admission of Kansas Under the Wyandott [!] Constitution
Author: Stephen Arnold Douglas
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Lincoln and Douglas
Author: Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring the country to war. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. Two years later, he was elected president and was on his way to becoming the greatest chief executive in American history. What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country’s most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. As this brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation. Lincoln lost that Senate race to Douglas, though he came close to toppling the “Little Giant,” whom almost everyone thought was unbeatable. Guelzo’s Lincoln and Douglas brings alive their debates and this whole year of campaigns and underscores their centrality in the greatest conflict in American history. The encounters between Lincoln and Douglas engage a key question in American political life: What is democracy's purpose? Is it to satisfy the desires of the majority? Or is it to achieve a just and moral public order? These were the real questions in 1858 that led to the Civil War. They remain questions for Americans today.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring the country to war. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. Two years later, he was elected president and was on his way to becoming the greatest chief executive in American history. What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country’s most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. As this brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation. Lincoln lost that Senate race to Douglas, though he came close to toppling the “Little Giant,” whom almost everyone thought was unbeatable. Guelzo’s Lincoln and Douglas brings alive their debates and this whole year of campaigns and underscores their centrality in the greatest conflict in American history. The encounters between Lincoln and Douglas engage a key question in American political life: What is democracy's purpose? Is it to satisfy the desires of the majority? Or is it to achieve a just and moral public order? These were the real questions in 1858 that led to the Civil War. They remain questions for Americans today.
Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, on Kansas Territorial Affairs
Author: Stephen Arnold Douglas
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Life of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Bibliography of Vermont
Author: Marcus Davis Gilman
Publisher: Burlington : Free Press association
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher: Burlington : Free Press association
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher:
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Slavery, a Bibliographic Guide to the Microfiche Collection
Author: Microfilming Corporation of America
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Abraham Lincoln; a History, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
Author: John George Nicolay
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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