Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas 1858 Campaign

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" INTRODUCTION
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a defining moment in American political history, affording Abraham Lincoln a major opportunity to create an image for himself on the wider public stage. Stephen Douglas was an established political figure and had distinguished himself in numerous congressional battles, while Lincoln was the newcomer, a lawyer who had made his mark in the courtroom and who had served a stint in Congress as the only Whig representative from Illinois. The Illinois newspapers saw the significance of these encounters and played them up big in print. The fact that these debates were being held in different locales helped conserve the time of busy rural voters, gave both candidates larger audiences than they might have reached on their own, and made possible a true clash of arguments and ideas."

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