Lincoln-Douglas+Debates+4B

This is being done by Leslie and Xandy.

Click [|HERE] if you want to see Mr. Lincoln gettin funky. Click [|HERE] if you //really// want to see how Lincoln played his part in the war.

--There were seven debates, one for each congressionial disctrict of Illionois--Except for two, in which they had already spok e in seperately. Lincoln was the Republican candidate, and Douglas was the (incumbent) Democratic candidate. --Lincoln said that popular sovereignty would nationalize and perpetuate slavery. Douglas argued that both Whigs and Democrats believed in popular sovereignty, and that the Compromise of 1850 was an example of this. --Lincoln was accused by Douglas' administration as being an Abolitionist, a member of the "Black Republican Party". And although Abolitionism was on the rise as a movement, it was still a political extreme--Which is to be avoided in any congressional race.

The debates got national attention, as they clearly stood for the debate between Black & White equality, whether or not to abolish slavery, etc. Newspapers from all around the country sent stenographers to record the speeches, where they would be published; //in their entirety//, in the papers. The Democratic newspapers would remove speech errors and typos from the Stenographer's recording in Douglas' speeches, but not for Lincoln's. Republican newspapers would do the same, vice versa. Lincoln used a number of colorful phrases in the debates, such as when he said that one argument by Douglas made a horse chestnut into a chestnut horse, and compared an evasion by Douglas to the sepia cloud from a cuttlefish. Lincoln said that Douglas' Freeport Doctrine was a do-nothing sovereignty that was "as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death."

LINCOLN IS A PIMP 