In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery politics of Vice President John Breckinridge of Kentucky. This lecture will argue that Lincoln was a savvy but principled politician who tried to restore the Spirit of ’76 as the leading principle of American self-government. Without a return to the equality principle of the Declaration of Independence, which Lincoln insisted included black people, he believed the nationalization of slavery would occur through the acquiescence of white northerners. If they permitted its expansion into the federal territories, Lincoln predicted that the legal groundwork would be set to prevent northern states from continuing to prohibit slavery by their laws or constitution. The lecture will focus on Lincoln’s skill in promoting a freedom agenda irrespective of race as he avoided the charge of fanatica
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On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience as Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas graciously invited Lincoln to join him on the balcony to listen to the speech. In his speech Douglas sounded the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and