2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
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Book, "Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois", Columbus, Ohio, Follett, Foster, and Co., 1860. 3rd edition, with publisher's advertisements bound in. 268 pp., 6½ x 9½ in. Lincoln's debates with incumbent Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas earned him national prominence. Slavery was the pressing national issue, especially regarding its expansion into the western territories. Douglas authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), which effectively repealed the free-slave dividing line set by the Missouri Compromise (1820) at 36° 30' north latitude. Instead of banning slavery north of the line and banning south of it, new states would instead decide on slavery's status within their borders by "popular sovereignty." On its surface, Douglas's bill appeared to offer the nation a middle path on the contentious issue of slavery. Instead, it would only muddy the waters on slavery. Lincoln recognized the problems slavery presented for the nation, and in his debates with Douglas, focused his attention on the nationalization of slavery, both West and North. After he was nominated as the Republican candidate for the Senate, he spoke to the convention, famously asserting that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." The House Divided speech, delivered at Springfield, Illinois, on June 17, 1858, is the opening piece of this book. Though he would lose the Senate race, the rest of the book details Lincoln's intellectual combat with Douglas over slavery.
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