. The writings of Abraham Lincoln . >^tL.,4*-n. CHAPTER XIII. LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. The Famous Contest for the Senatorship—A Battle of Giants—Doug-las and Lincoln Compared—Two Self-made Men—Lincolns Auto-biography—A Series of Famous Debates—The Country Intent onthe Struggle—A Great Lesson in American Politics. ONCE more were Lincoln and Douglas to bepitted against each other. In 1858, the sena-torial term of Douglas was drawing to a close. Hedesired to be re-elected and to have the indorsementof the people of Illinois. Seeing how the LecomptonConstitution had been lawlessly framed, and reali
. The writings of Abraham Lincoln . >^tL.,4*-n. CHAPTER XIII. LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. The Famous Contest for the Senatorship—A Battle of Giants—Doug-las and Lincoln Compared—Two Self-made Men—Lincolns Auto-biography—A Series of Famous Debates—The Country Intent onthe Struggle—A Great Lesson in American Politics. ONCE more were Lincoln and Douglas to bepitted against each other. In 1858, the sena-torial term of Douglas was drawing to a close. Hedesired to be re-elected and to have the indorsementof the people of Illinois. Seeing how the LecomptonConstitution had been lawlessly framed, and realiz-ing that slavery thus forced upon Kansas had alreadymade hosts of converts to the Republican party, hehad begun to differ, personally, with the soon, by his votes in the Senate, showed that hewas opposed to the Lecompton Constitution. It wasinconsistent for him to labor against that which hisown Kansas-Nebraska Bill had made possible. Butthis he did, and not a few Republicans in the East-em States thought that he woul
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