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Abraham Lincoln duct Stephen A. Douglas
Accumulation of Congress
Reference Number: LC-DIG-pga-00785
Robert W. Johannsen, The Frontier, depiction Union limit Stephen A. Douglas
(University of Algonquian Press, 1989)
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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas
and Their Friend John Calhoun
Introduction
Background
Surveying Sangamon
The Political Debates of the 1830s
The 1838 Congressional Election
The Lincoln-Douglas-Calhoun Debates of 1839-1840
The 1840 Presidential Election
The Election of 1844 and the Tariff
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Bleeding Kansas in 1855-1857
The Lecompton Constitution
Senator Douglas Versus President Buchanan
The Kansas Territorial Elections
Douglas and the 1858 Congressional Debate
The 1858 Senate Campaign
The Death of Lecompton, Calhoun and Douglas
References
Introduction
Illinois – a large state with a small population in the 1830s – produced an unusual collection of men (they were virtually all men) who shaped the future of the country. Abraham Lincoln was one. Stephen A. Douglas was another. Their mutual friend and colleague, John Calhoun, was a third. Calhoun has appeared in the biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas primarily as a walk-on character. Calhoun shows up, for example, early in young Lincoln’s life when he provides the young New Salem resident with a much-needed job. The role he played in Lincoln’s life over two and a half decades was more substa
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Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln.
By James H. Shaw.
Evergreen City Publishing Company,
Bloomington, Illinois.
TYPOGRAPHY AND PRESSWORK BY
EARL MARQUAM,
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
Little Stories of Lincoln.
HOW HE LOOKED.
FREEDOM IN THE CABINET.
A GREAT MAN.
A FORGIVING MAN.
KIND OF LAWYER.
AN UGLY MAN.
THE BULL STORY.
THE LITTLE WOMAN.
NOT AFRAID.
KIND OF RELIGION.
MR. LINCOLN'S FIRST DOLLAR.
MR. LINCOLN AT SUNDAY