. Die Geschichte der jungen Leute des Krieges für die Gewerkschaft. Mit allen Klassen, madehim eine keineswegs ungleiche Übereinstimmung für die wenigen gebildeten Männer, die er in der Debatte traf. Inzwischen war er zu 1861 zugelassen worden.] LINCOLN UND DOUGLAS. 51 die Bar, und hatte ein Büro in Springfield eröffnet, wo er als erfolgreicher Jurist bekannt wurde. 1846 wurde Herr Lincoln in den Kongress gewählt, aber er tat nichts, um sich zu unterscheiden. Er lehnte es ab, ein kann-didate für Wiederwahl, und für ein paar Jahre danach mehr Aufmerksamkeit auf sein Geschäft als auf die Politik, obwohl im Jahr 1849 war er ein erfolgloser Kandidat für United S

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. Young folk's history of the war for the union . with all classes, madehim a by no means unequal match for the few educated menwhom he met in debate. Meantime he had been admitted to 1861.] LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. 51 the bar, and had opened an office in Springfield, where he be-came noted as a successful jury lawyer. In 1846 Mr. Lincoln was elected to Congress, but he didnothing there to distinguish himself. He declined to be a can-didate for re-election, and for a few years afterward paid moreattention to his business than to politics, though in 1849 he wasan unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator. In 1854, when the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, he again took part in politics, and soon becamethe leader of the Anti-Nebraska Whigs in the State. At onetime (October 4), Stephen A. Douglas, the father of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, made a speech in Springfield in defence of hiscourse in the Senate. Mr. Lincoln replied to him in one of thebest speeches of his life, and from that time people looked upon. Lincolns Home, Springfield. him as a rising man. He had often met in debate Avith Mr.Douglas, who was deemed so able that he was called the LittleGiant, but never before so successfully; and in 1858 Mr. Lin-coln was nominated for the United States Senate, against Mr.Douglas, who was a candidate for re-election. Lincoln chal-lenged Douglas to debate with him the subjects at issue, and thetwo spoke together at different places seven times, the principalquestion being the right of Congress to prohibit slavery in theTerritories. Though Douglas was successful in the contest, Lincoln made such a reputation that he came to be looked uponall over the country as one of the strongest upholders of Ee-publican principles; and it finally led to his nomination andelection to the Presidency in 1860. In his inaugural address, Mr. Lincoln took the ground that 52 SUMTER. [1861. no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out ofthe Union; that res

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