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Clarifies the central issues of the 1850s, including the Missouri Bargain, the Kansas-Nebraska Take action, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision. "Now, I hold that Illinois had a right to abolish and prohibit slavery as she does, and I hold that Kentucky gets the same right to continue and protect slavery that Illinois had to abolish. I hold that NY had all the right to abolish slavery as Virginia must continue it, and that each and every State of the Union is a sovereign electricity, with the right to do as it pleases after this question of slavery, and after all its home institutions. ...And why can we not adhere to the great concept of self-government, after which our organizations were originally based." - Stephen Douglas A lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important figures, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to accelerate on the lives of America's most important women and men in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. The most well-known debates in American history were placed over 150 years ago, and today they are kept in mind and celebrated, mostly because they included future Leader Abraham Lincoln, one of the nation's most revered men. However in the Fall of 1858, Lincoln was simply a one-term Congressman who had to all or any but beg his US Senate challenger to question him. That's because his challenger, incumbent US Senator Stephen Douglas, was one of the very most famous countrywide politicians of the age. Though Douglas is kept in mind today almost totally for his relationship with Lincoln, in 1858 he was "The Little Large" of American politics and a leader of the Democratic Get together.
