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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Lincoln - Douglas debates

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


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Seven debates in 1858 during the Illinois state electoral campaign on slavery and state rights.  Lincoln despaired that the issues at hand would be discussed long after "these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent."

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