Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . rty such new issues as the revival of the Africanslave-trade, or a Congressional slave-code for theTerritories, or the doctrine that the Constitution ofthe United States either establishes or prohibitsdou ias to slaverv m the Territories beyond the power of theD22ri859ne people legally to control it, as other property—itis due to candor to say that, in such an event, Icould not accept the nomination if tendered to must leave the career of Douglas for a while,to follow up the personal hist
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . rty such new issues as the revival of the Africanslave-trade, or a Congressional slave-code for theTerritories, or the doctrine that the Constitution ofthe United States either establishes or prohibitsdou ias to slaverv m the Territories beyond the power of theD22ri859ne people legally to control it, as other property—itis due to candor to say that, in such an event, Icould not accept the nomination if tendered to must leave the career of Douglas for a while,to follow up the personal history of Lincoln. Thepeculiar attitude of national politics had in theprevious year drawn the attention of the wholecountry to Illinois in a remarkable degree. TheSenatorial campaign was hardly opened when aChicago editor, whose daily examination of a largelist of newspaper exchanges brought the factvividly under his observation, wrote to Lincoln:You are like Byron, who woke up one morningand found himself famous. People wish to knowabout you. You have sprung at once from the Sun, June 24, DAVID COLBRETH BEODERICK. LINCOLNS OHIO SPEECHES 177 position of a capital fellow, and a leading lawyerin Illinois, to a national reputation. The compliment was fully warranted; the per-sonal interest in Lincoln increased daily from thebeginning to the end of the great debates. TheFreeport doctrine and its effect upon the Dem-ocratic party gave these discussions both presentsignificance and a growing interest for the friend wrote him, a few days after elec-tion : You have made a noble canvass, which, ifunavailing in this State, has earned you a nationalreputation, and made you friends everywhere. That this was not the mere flattery of partialfriends became manifest to him by other indica-tions ; by an increased correspondence filled withgeneral commendation, and particularly by numer-ous invitations to deliver speeches in other Republican Central Committee of
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