Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln participated in a series

important political debates with

Jefferson Davis

Andrew Johnson

Stephen Douglas

Andrew Jackson

Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln participated in a series

important political debates with

Stephen Douglas ...

Lincoln Douglas Debates a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln (Republican) and Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat) during his campaigns for senator of Ittino in 1858; in each debate, Lincoln stressed that the issue of the campaign was the spread of slavery in the West; Lincoln accUsed Democrats of wanting to spread slavery across the nation; Douglas accused Lincoln of wanting to make a free state