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Article: USI TO HOST HISTORY'S 'GREAT DEBATERS'
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2008
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In 1858 two ill-matched Senate candidates walked onto a hastily
built platform in Illinois and began a series of marathon debates
that changed American history.
One was a tall, gangly Republican lawyer named Abraham Lincoln
whose political career hung in the balance. The other was the most
powerful man in the U.S. Senate, a diminutive Democrat named Stephen
A. Douglas.
They would debate at seven outdoor sites across Illinois on one
topic - slavery, and whether it should be legalized in the newly
organized western territories.
Lincoln lost the 1858 election, but not the debates, catapulting
him into the national spotlight and his party's 1860 nomination for
president.
At 7 p.m. June 19, ...
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