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The political debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.

The encounters between the two candidates made history
as the nation’s first truly public argument over slavery.

An attractive copy preserved in its publisher’s cloth, as issued.

43. lincoln, Abraham. Political debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois; Including the
Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also, the Two Great
Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, As Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of
Each Party, and Published at the Times of Their Delivery.
Columbus, Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.

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233 x 157 mm.
first edition, later issue, of « Historically the most important series of American political
debates » (Howes).
Howes, L 339 ; Sabin, 41156 ; Monaghan, 69.
Later issue (rule over publisher’s imprint on copyright page, no numeral “2” on page 17, nume-
ral “2” at bottom of page 13).

In 1858, in Illinois, an antislavery lawyer named Abraham Lincoln ran for the U.S. Senate
against the proslavery incumbent Stephen Douglas. Over a series of seven historic debates, the
two candidates argued about the future of slavery. The encounters between the two candidates
made history as the nation’s first truly public argument over slavery. Ultimately, the debates
played a crucial role in Lincoln’s success in the 1860 presidential election, which led to the
beginning of the Civil War.

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act made clear to the North that the South would accept no
limitations for slavery. The position of the Southern leaders, in which they had the substantial
backing of their constituents, was that slaves were property and that the Constitution, guaranteed
the protection of property to all the citizens of the commonwealth. The Northern opponents of
Slavery refused to accept the view that later generations of American citizens were to be bound
for an indefinite period by this error of Judgment on the part of the Fathers. They proposed to
get rid of Slavery.
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