Question

250 of the lincoln douglas debate 1858
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Answer 1

Explanation:

Opposed by a president from his own party, Senator Stephen Douglas (D, Illinois) began the year in 1858 uncertain about his upcoming reelection. Some leaders of the new Republican Party saw this as a great opportunity. Horace Greeley, a leading Republican newspaper editor from New York, talked openly about the possibility of accepting Douglas into the Republican Party. But Abraham Lincoln, a lawyer and party organizer in Springfield, Illinois, objected. So did many Illinois Republicans who were troubled by the idea of Douglas as their new standard-bearer. They had opposed him so often in the past on various policy matters, especially on the question of slavery expansion into the western territories, that they fiercely resisted Greeley's suggestion