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Title: How Abraham Lincoln became president
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Davis, J. McCan (John McCan), 1866-1916
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Illinois Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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f slavery. Why can it not exist on the sameprinciples on which our fathers made it ? The attack of Douglas brought the attention of thewhole country to the house divided speech of Mr.Lincoln. Very soon every eye was turned to Illinois. Lincoln had given a new aspect to the slavery ques-tion. Up to that time every attempt at legislation affect-ing slavery had been based on the theory of compromise.There had been two famous compromises — the Mis-souri compromise of 1820 and the compromise of 1850.Both had been founded on the theory that the institutionof slavery was to be protected and perpetuated. Theopposition had been directed, not against the institution How Abraham Lincoln Became President. 43 itself, but against the spread of slavery into the territorydedicated to freedom. But here was a new doctrine pro-claiming that the day of compromise was at an end, thatthis Government could not permanently endure half slaveand half free, that it must become eventually all slave orall free.
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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. His Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854 caused Abraham Lincoln to re-enterpolitics; and his debates with Lincoln in 1858 made the latter a national fig-ure and a presidential possibility. Senator Douglas and Mr. Lincoln were long political rivals but alwayspersonal friends. When Mr. Lincoln was elevated to the Presidency, Mr.Douglas, defeated candidate for the office, became one of his loyal supporters.At the inaugural ceremonies, March 4, 1861, he held the Presidents hat as atoken of his sustaining friendship. At Springfield, 111., April 25, he delivereda speech of great eloquence and force, appealing to his followers throughoutthe nation to rally to the support of the Union, declaring that the shortes^way to peace is the most stupendous and unanimous preparation for war.He died in Chicago June 3, 1861. The Little Giant*: A Tribute American history furnishes no higher example ofpatriotism than the conduct of Stephen A. Douglas in1861. There was peculiar pathos in his dea

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