Into the civil war in support of the confederacy. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. It is great to be back at the Lincoln Library. I did some of the research, spent many happy days down the hall scrolling through newspaper microfilm wheels and letters across the hall. It is doing research at the Lincoln Library which is a great and terrible thing. It is great because the people are absolutely amazing to more people like eileen you is an expert in Foreign Policy in her own right, people like dr. James cornelius, the curator of the lincoln connection who is a living, breathing, encyclopedia of all things lincoln. Those are the good things. The terrible thing is when you are here to research youre surrounded by the 15,000 books about Abraham Lincoln that have already been written. And so i think it is a stark reminder that anybody who comes here and asks you to put another book on that shelf really has some explaining to do right at the beginning. That is what i wanted to st
And what if you reach the white house and theres no nation left to save . The United States is on the brink of civil war. The dispute is about whether the New Territories should become free states like the north or slave states like the south. Nowhere is the debate fiercer than in ottawa, illinois. Thousands have descended on this little town. Its the campaign for the u. S. Senate, and theyve come to hear Abraham Lincoln confront senator stephen a. Douglas on the issue that threatens to tear america apart slavery. The debates between lincoln and douglas drew enormous crowds. People are drinking. People are cheering. People are fighting. It was almost pugilistic, as if people were coming to a boxing match to watch these two heavyweights slug it out. Lincoln is a rookie politician, a member of the brandnew Republican Party. Just four years old, it was formed to end slavery. Hes an unknown, Abraham Lincolns career as a politician has been almost nonexistent. The only thing lincoln has is
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