How Abraham Lincoln became president . f slavery. Why can it not exist on the sameprinciples on which our fathers made it ? The attack of Douglas brought the attention of thewhole country to the house divided speech of Very soon every eye was turned to Illinois. Lincoln had given a new aspect to the slavery ques-tion. Up to that time every attempt at legislation affect-ing slavery had been based on the theory of had been two famous compromises — the Mis-souri compromise of 1820 and the compromise of had been founded on the theory that the institutionof sl
How Abraham Lincoln became president . f slavery. Why can it not exist on the sameprinciples on which our fathers made it ? The attack of Douglas brought the attention of thewhole country to the house divided speech of Very soon every eye was turned to Illinois. Lincoln had given a new aspect to the slavery ques-tion. Up to that time every attempt at legislation affect-ing slavery had been based on the theory of had been two famous compromises — the Mis-souri compromise of 1820 and the compromise of had been founded on the theory that the institutionof slavery was to be protected and perpetuated. Theopposition had been directed, not against the institution How Abraham Lincoln Became President. 43 itself, but against the spread of slavery into the territorydedicated to freedom. But here was a new doctrine pro-claiming that the day of compromise was at an end, thatthis Government could not permanently endure half slaveand half free, that it must become eventually all slave orall STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. His Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854 caused Abraham Lincoln to re-enterpolitics; and his debates with Lincoln in 1858 made the latter a national fig-ure and a presidential possibility. Senator Douglas and Mr. Lincoln were long political rivals but alwayspersonal friends. When Mr. Lincoln was elevated to the Presidency, , defeated candidate for the office, became one of his loyal the inaugural ceremonies, March 4, 1861, he held the Presidents hat as atoken of his sustaining friendship. At Springfield, 111., April 25, he delivereda speech of great eloquence and force, appealing to his followers throughoutthe nation to rally to the support of the Union, declaring that the shortes^way to peace is the most stupendous and unanimous preparation for died in Chicago June 3, 1861. The Little Giant*: A Tribute American history furnishes no higher example ofpatriotism than the conduct of Stephen A. Douglas in186
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