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Stephan A. Douglas, "The little giant" , was the incumbent senator from Illinois who defeated Republican Lincoln in 1858. He also ran for president against Lincoln in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
In 1858 when Abraham Lincoln was running for the Senate seat of Illinois held by Stephen Douglas, the Illinois Republican Party declared that slavery and Catholicism were the two greatest threats to American democracy.
Certainly the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates for the US senate seat of Senator Douglas of Illinois highlighted the differences between Republicans and Democrats on the slavery issue. It can be said, as well, that Lincoln's ideas reflected a growing messianic sentiment on the part of Lincoln. Lincoln's well known "House divided" speech invoked the words of Jesus Christ. Lincoln also made it clear in 1858 that slavery was not only a political issue but was a religious issue as well.
Stephen A. Douglas debated Lincoln in a famous series of debates in 1858. They were campaigning for the office of US Senator from Illinois. The debates attracted national attention and were published in the newspapers in the East as well as the Midwest.
On June 18, 1858, Abraham Lincoln formally accepted the Republican Party's nomination to the US senate of Illinois. His speech is known as the "House Divided" speech.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1858 Republican Party nomination for senator for Illinois.
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Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois Senate election.
The two institutions that the 1958 Illinois Radical Republicans cite as the dangers to the US were the judiciary and the legislature.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Abe Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln was the Republican. He ran against Stephen Douglas, a Democrat in 1858. Douglas won.