Pages 4-6 of Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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The Republican leaders have formed an alliance, an unholy and unnatural alliance, with a portion of unscrupulous federal office-holders...

The third debate was conducted the next day in the same place as the second, to respond to Douglas's response. Lincoln said the Democrats were 'dividing the democratic party to unseat him' and vowed to fight this. For the whole speech go to teachingamericanhistory.org.

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The fourth speech took place in Bloomington, by Douglas. For the whole speech go to digital.lib.niu.edu

I appear before you this evening for the purpose of vindicating the course which I have felt it my duty to pursue in the Senate of the United States upon the great public questions which have agitated the country since I last addressed you.

Although I have ever been opposed to slavery, so far I rested in the hope and belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction.

...Mr. Lincoln’s... last point is, that he will wage a warfare upon the Supreme Court of the United States because of the Dred Scott decision.

The fifth and sixth speeches took place in Springfield, and for both men's speeches, the opponent was not present. Douglas argued that if Lincoln wanted to fight the Dred Scott decision, he should pursue a position in Court, and Lincoln argued why the republican party wouldn't be advantageous in the upcoming election.

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The Republican leaders have formed an alliance, an unholy and unnatural alliance, with a portion of unscrupulous federal office-holders...

The third debate was conducted the next day in the same place as the second, to respond to Douglas's response. Lincoln said the Democrats were 'dividing the democratic party to unseat him' and vowed to fight this. For the whole speech go to teachingamericanhistory.org.

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The fourth speech took place in Bloomington, by Douglas. For the whole speech go to digital.lib.niu.edu

I appear before you this evening for the purpose of vindicating the course which I have felt it my duty to pursue in the Senate of the United States upon the great public questions which have agitated the country since I last addressed you.

Although I have ever been opposed to slavery, so far I rested in the hope and belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction.

...Mr. Lincoln’s... last point is, that he will wage a warfare upon the Supreme Court of the United States because of the Dred Scott decision.

The fifth and sixth speeches took place in Springfield, and for both men's speeches, the opponent was not present. Douglas argued that if Lincoln wanted to fight the Dred Scott decision, he should pursue a position in Court, and Lincoln argued why the republican party wouldn't be advantageous in the upcoming election.

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