Abraham Lincoln-Douglas Debates During The Civil War

The American Civil War initiated directly from the northern and southern strained relations on controversial matters along with their intransigent attitudes. The Presidential Election of Abraham Lincoln engendered the secession forming the Confederate States of America due to the matter of states’ rights opposed to federal supremacy, slavery, and economic sectionalism. The United States Secession in 1860 involved seven states withdrawing from the Union, following four states after the emerging battle of the Civil War. Republicans opposed the enlargement of slavery flowing throughout the territories, therefore restricting the practice of slavery. Southern states discerned on the depriving control of federal government eventually overpowering slavery resulting to its prohibition. In the Southern perspective, the act of secession from the Union was an obligation of thriving the established system of

Republican speeches involved the denunciation of slavery and attempt to enfranchise African American in the November ballot by proposing an amendment, “Hundreds of thousands of runaway slaves would relocate into free states…” Lincoln emphasize public encounters addressing the unethical issues of slavery known as Lincoln-Douglas Debates. The series of seven public debates entailed political conflicts over slavery and its formation after the Mexican War. Although in Douglas’s perception, the upheaval of slavery condemned on northern abolitionists and created southern divergence from the nation. Douglas was against the issue of states’ rights and in favor of federal government’s dominance. With 152 electoral votes required to win, Lincoln won a total of 180 electoral votes placing Douglas in the fourth position with 12 electoral votes. Due to Lincoln elected as President, led to the disunion of the North and South in the difference of