This story is about the seven debates that emerged after Abraham Lincoln became the president of Illinois in 1860. Both Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were in different parties, worked hard towards their respective parties taking over the legislative of Illinois. This book entails about Lincoln and Douglas in their political quest to form legislation in Illinois. Both Douglas and Lincoln joined politics in order to shift from physical labor. Lincoln grew up serving in his father’s tracks in Northern Kentucky, South Indiana, and Central Illinois after his mother had died when he was still young. Unlike many young men of his age who were into farming, Lincoln was into politics. In his political movement, Lincoln promised the farmers …show more content…
Unwilling to concede to slavery’s horrors, southerner’s damned abolitionists for what they considered tampering with their property. Abolitionists, in their eyes, spread subversive doctrines that would cause otherwise faithful slaves to become disloyal, even possibly to revolt. Lincoln’s insistence especially towards the end of the debates that blacks and whites were equal in respect to the guarantees of the Declaration was for many deeply radical propositions. At the point when Lincoln articulated that the whole records of the world might be searched with no bore fruits for one single assertion from one single man, that the Negro was excluded in the presentation of autonomous. Another instance is when he avers that whoever teaches that the Negro has no humble share in the declaration of independence is blowing out the moral lights around us, and “perverting the human soul” he mobilizes rhetoric of hyperbole in the name of a far-reaching democratic vision. The culture of Barnum could thrive within Lincoln-Douglas because of several of its most salient features-exaggeration, caricature, populism, idealism-lent themselves to American political experimentation, especially as practiced in the West. Through the incorporation of the nascent entertainment industry, Lincoln-Douglas became an arena for the expression of convictions at the extremities of the