. 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. raska 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
. 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. raska 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-slave and half-free. I do not ex-pect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expectthe house to fall; but I do expect that it willcease to be divided. It will become all one thing,or all another. Either the opponents of slaverywill arrest the further spread of it, and place itwhere the public mind shall rest in the belief thatit is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its ad-vocates will push it forward till it shall become. NCOLX HOME. SPRINGFIELD. ILL. ABRAHAB LLXCOLX 57 alike lawful in all the States, old as well as as well as South. In the notable argument of squatter sover-eignty, otherwise called sacred right of self-gov-ernment, this latter phrase, though expressive ofthe only rightful basis of any government, is soperverted in this attempted use of it as to amountto just this.—that, if any one man choose to en-slave another, no third man shall be allowed toobject. The campaign was now fairly opened. Afterone or two speeches, in which ^Ir. Douglas andMr. Lincoln addressed the same audiences, but atdiflferent meetings. Air. Lincoln, on the 24th ofJuly, 185S, sent a proposition to Sir. Douglas thatthey should make arrangements to speak at thesame meetings, dividing the time between propositio
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