The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Lincoln-Douglas Debates At the meeting of the Illinois State Bar association on Thursday afternoon, Hon. Clark E. Carr delivered the following address on the Lincoln-Douglas debates: The Address. In one of his speeches during the great campaign of 185 Sin Illinois, known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Mr. Lincoln said: "Twenty-two years ago Judge Douglas and I became acquainted. We were both young then - he a trifle younger than I. Even then we were both ambitious, I perhaps quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure - a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success. His name fills the nation, and is not unknown even in foreign lands. I affect no contempt; or the high eminence he has reached. I would rather stand upon that eminence than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarchs brow." Mr. Lincoln´s Struggles. As Mr. Lincoln said, he was ambitious, but never did a young man struggle for success under so many embarrassments, and few have been so many times disappointed. He was as a young man, awkward and ungainly, and of the subjects taught in the schools he knew little. There are now in Illinois few school boys of ten years old that are not better informed in what are called the common branches than was Abraham Lincoln at twenty. But even then, Abraham Lincoln was by no means ignorant. He had read all the books he could get, among which were the Bible, the "Pilgrims Progress," and Weems´s Life of Washington. He was always an inquirer. From those with whom he came in contact he was always learning This continued so long as he lived. Mr. Lincoln, as he grew older, became ambitious to hold office. The place he held longest was that of member of the Illinois legislature, to which he was elected and re-elected four times. Finally he was elected to the lower house of congress. Then he seemed to be upon the high road to success. But this proved to be a disappointment. While he voted for supplies to the army, he disapproved of the Mexican war, then being fought, and frankly so declared. The war spirit was on and on account of the opinions he expressed his re-election was not even considered. When he left congress on March 4, 1849, or more properly speaking, when he was left out of congress, he renounced politics, and returning to his dingy law office, devoted himself to his practice, riding the circuit as before, intending to devote himself to his profession the remainder of his life. But in the winter of 1854 he was aroused to such a sense of duty that he could not refrain from returning to politics. Repeal of Missouri Compromise. The Missouri compromise line, that great barrier against slavery, was menaced, and it was finally assailed by the most potential man in congress, by Senator Douglas, under the plea that the people should be allowed to prohibit or introduce slavery, as the majority should determine, under the doctrine of what he called "Popular Sovereignty." Mr. Lincoln was, as were all the free soil men, alarmed. He was opposed to the extension of slavery at all, even if the people of a territory wanted it. Besides, he distrusted Senator Douglas, and felt by no means confident that, with the great barrier removed, he still would not, under the influence of the South, force slavery upon a new territory against the will of her people. Mr. Lincoln watched with intense interest the struggle in congress, which resulted in the free soil men being defeated and overwhelmed by the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the overthrow of the great barrier against slavery. In the senate the vote stood, yeas 37, nays 14. In the house it stood, yeas 1
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