Lincoln-Douglas Debates Came Out of Essay

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Douglas did not believe that blacks were equal to whites, but he also didn't necessarily believe that because of that fact they should be slaves. Rather, he believed that it was up to every state to decide what the rights should be. He didn't want to set forth laws about this, but rather, he wanted every state to decide for itself.

One of Lincoln's better points was that slavery had not served to bring the states of the Union together, but rather, slavery had served to put a wedge between the states of the Union. When considering why the Union had existed in a half-free / half-slave state for so long, Lincoln commented that the men who created the government thought that slavery was only a temporary thing. He thought that when people realized that slavery would not and could not be everlasting, it would simply stop. He thought that slavery should just be left alone in the South until it dwindled away on its own, which he believed would eventually happen.

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Lincoln and Douglas were both campaigning for a seat in the Senate from the State of Illinois. Though Lincoln had 4,000 more popular votes that the candidates supporting Douglas, the Douglas Democrats won a majority of seats and thus Douglas was chosen to take the seat as Senator from Illinois. Of course, Abraham Lincoln and his passion for the topic of slavery would not be disregarded nor forgotten. He went on several trips to the western states to speak, although he did not speak of becoming a candidate for president in 1860. When asked, he would always respond, "Only events can make a president" (The Making of a Nation), and indeed, those events would come.

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