Civil_War_Quarterly_-_Summer_2016_

(Michael S) #1

Thunder


TONES


Stephen Douglas and


Abraham Lincoln had


been personal and


political opponents for


20 years when they


clashed for Douglas’s


Illinois Senate seat


in 1858. Their heated


debates would quickly


capture the attention


of the nation.


By Roy Morris Jr.


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