The Lincoln and Douglas Debates
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Excerpt from The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 17, 1914 The subject of this lecture is the Lincoln and Douglas debates. These debates took place in the year 1858. They grew out of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Doubt less some of you know what the Missouri Compromise was and others do not. It is best that all should know, since without such knowledge the debates themselves would have little meaning for you. Fifty-six years have passed since those debates took place. One hundred and ten years have passed since President Jefferson bought Louisiana from Napoleon Bonaparte. Missouri Territory was a part of the Louisiana Purchase. Without that purchase there would have been no Missouri Compromise, and no repeal of it in 1854, and no Lincoln and Douglas debates on account thereof. But there was a remoter and deeper cause for that encounter. President Jefferson might have bought Louisiana with its vast hinterland, and his successors might have carved Missouri out of it and admitted her to the Union as a state, without any disturbance, had not African slavery existed in this country. That direful curse was ingrafted upon us in the year 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia, where a Dutch warship, short of provisions, exchanged fourteen negroes for a supply thereof. Few persons of the present day realize how shocking a condition of society slavery was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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