Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Douglas an Enemy to the North.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08933 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Printed document Date: 19 September 1859 Pagination: 8 p. ; 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Order a Copy
Title continues: Reasons Why the North Should Oppose Judge Douglas. Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. Delivered at Cincinnati, September 19, 1859. Paraphrases and summarizes a speech delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lincoln says Douglas is "the man of the North, pre-eminently the man, who moulded the public sentiment of his section to the uses of the South...As an illustration of the vast power with which Douglas was wielding the public sentiment of the North to suit the South, let it be remembered that five years ago there was not a man on the continent who had said that the negro had no share in the Declaration of Independence." Lincoln's claims in this speech reportedly further develop his arguments in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. He purportedly addressed a portion of his remarks to Kentuckians, just across the river, explaining that Douglas's views on slavery were compatible with pro-slavery sentiment there. Printed by Lemuel Towers in 1859 or 1869.
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