. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. -, and took his standnpon the platform of the Silliman ^Memorial. TheDemocratic State Convention of Illinois indorsedhis position. Still, Air. Douglas had not changedhis fundamental position. He still advocated theopening of the territory, which had been conse-crated to freedom, to the entrance of slavery; andhe still would allow the white inhabitants of theTerritory, in their Constitution, to decide wheth
. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. -, and took his standnpon the platform of the Silliman ^Memorial. TheDemocratic State Convention of Illinois indorsedhis position. Still, Air. Douglas had not changedhis fundamental position. He still advocated theopening of the territory, which had been conse-crated to freedom, to the entrance of slavery; andhe still would allow the white inhabitants of theTerritory, in their Constitution, to decide whether. THE BLACK HAWK ABRAHAM LINCOLN 55 or not they would perpetuate the enslavement ofthe colored inhabitants. But he would not supportthe doings of an armed mob from Missouri,which had invaded Kansas, chosen a legislature,and framed a Constitution. Upon this point hebroke away from Air. Buchanan and his admin-istration. The Republicans of Illinois were not willing tosend back to the Senate one who was the authorof the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, but Mr. Douglaswas the recognized leader of the Democraticparty in Illinois, and they rallied around him. TheRepublican State Convention met at Springfieldon the 16th of June, 1858. Nearly one thousanddelegate,^ ^i-ere present. Mr. Lincoln was unani-mously ».y3mmated for the Senate in opposition toMr. Douglas. In the evening he addressed theconvention at the State House. The following ex-tracts will give some faint idea of this remarkablespeech:— A house divided against self cannot believe that this government cannot endure per-manently half-
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