The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 . Legislature. The debateswere designed to encourage votersto elect state lawmakers who weresympathetic to their candidates. Selecting the states senators wasusually decided in a secret the case of the Lincoln-Douglasrace, however, both parties already had announced their candidates,which prompted Lincolns famousHouse Divided speech in Spring-field when he accepted the Re-publican nod. But the Republicans did not winenough votes in the Legislature tosend Lincoln to Washington, However, the debates were re-membered, and Lincoln becamethe successf
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 . Legislature. The debateswere designed to encourage votersto elect state lawmakers who weresympathetic to their candidates. Selecting the states senators wasusually decided in a secret the case of the Lincoln-Douglasrace, however, both parties already had announced their candidates,which prompted Lincolns famousHouse Divided speech in Spring-field when he accepted the Re-publican nod. But the Republicans did not winenough votes in the Legislature tosend Lincoln to Washington, However, the debates were re-membered, and Lincoln becamethe successful Republican candi-date for president two years appeared soft on the sla-very question to Southern Demo-crats who read the debate tran-scripts, and they abandoned himwhen he ran against Lincoln in1860, costing him the election. Douglas ended up supportingLincoln, though the senator diedshortly after the Civif War began. There was no particular signifi-cance to choosing Ottawa as thefirst site, said Plummer, but that. Douglas Debate sites Ottawa Freeport Jonesboro Charleston Galesburg Quincy Alton
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