Comparing The Beliefs Of Abraham Lincoln And Stephen Douglass

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass have many contradicting beliefs. For example, slavery was an issue on which the two running candidates were arguing over. Eventually, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. But the result was that many Southern states were trying to secede from the Union, which eventually led to the Civil War.

First, Abraham Lincoln debated on many issues, and a major issue that he and Stephen Douglass debated on was the issue of slavery. Lincoln believed that slavery was morally wrong. While on the other hand, Douglass believed that slavery should be ruled by popular sovereignty. Lincoln’s belief led many Northerners to vote for him. But only a few Northerners and Southerners voted for Douglass because popular sovereignty was a complicated process. This is because everyone has to vote, and people who are from other states might come to another, just to change the outcome. Causing popular sovereignty is a non-efficient, complicated, and non-accurate way of interpreting what people want of the government.

This is because Lincoln won all of the Northern states while he won none of the Southern states. Which led the South to think that the North could override anything that the South wanted. The Northern states had much power over the Southern states because of the Compromise of 1850. This compromise would let California in as a free state, so the balance of power is unbalanced. So this led to the results of the Northern states having more power than the Southern states. Many votes were against Lincoln, which is 2,819,056, but Lincoln only earned 1,866,452. That means Lincoln only earned 66% of the popular vote. But in the electoral college, these votes were enough to make him the president of the United