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Freeport Doctrine helps Douglas win Illinois and lose nation

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  • May 12, 2020

Freeport, Illinois, Aug, 27 The late August morning brought along a chilly rain. I have dressed the warmest I.

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Lincoln: ‘Physical differences…forever forbid the two races from living together’

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  • May 12, 2020

Charleston, Illinois, Sept. 18 As fall becomes well and truly upon us so does the frequency of the Lincoln.

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Lincoln: Granting negro equality as fantastical as proving ‘horse-chesnut to be a chesnut horse’

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  • May 12, 2020

Quincy, Illinois,Oct. 13 The Lincoln Douglas debate moves to downtown Quincy. It could be assumed that this city is.

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Douglas: ‘I’m in favor of confining citizenship to white men’

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  • May 12, 2020

Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21 The stage for the first debate has been erected on the edge of the canal..

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Lincoln-Douglas debates marred by overt racism

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  • May 12, 2020

When Abraham Lincoln and Sen. Stephen A. Douglas arrived in dry and dusty Ottawa, Illinois, on Aug. 21, 1858,.

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