{"id":4604,"date":"2022-11-03T01:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?page_id=4604"},"modified":"2022-11-08T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:59:15","slug":"other-lincoln-douglass-debates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/course-syllabus\/other-lincoln-douglass-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Lincoln &#8211; Douglass Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Timeline excerpt for mid-1850s<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4620\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-300x151.png\" alt=\"Masur map\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-1536x771.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-2048x1028.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.38.44-PM-500x251.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>1850 \/\/ Compromise includes admission of California as free state and tougher Fugitive Slave Law<\/li>\n<li>1851 \/\/ Christiana resistance signals ongoing battles over personal liberty and fugitive slaves<\/li>\n<li>1854 \/\/ Kansas-Nebraska Act and emergence of Republican Party<\/li>\n<li>1854 \/\/ Fugitive slave crises over Anthony Burns, Joshua Glover and slave stampedes in St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>1855 \/\/ Violence erupts in &#8220;Bleeding Kansas&#8221; and continues sporadically through late 1850s<\/li>\n<li>1856 \/\/ Senator Charles Sumner assaulted on US senate floor<\/li>\n<li>1856 \/\/ Democrat James Buchanan (Dickinson Class of 1809) wins presidency in three-way contest against Republican John Fremont and American (Know Nothing) Millard Fillmore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4608\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM-1024x682.png\" alt=\"Douglass\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM-1536x1023.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM-451x300.png 451w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.06.44-PM.png 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4609\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM-1024x698.png\" alt=\"Lincoln \" width=\"940\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM-1024x698.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM-1536x1047.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM-440x300.png 440w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.07.00-PM.png 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/frederick-douglass-fifth-of-july-speech-1852\/\">Frederick Douglass, Fifth of July speech (1852)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/view\/2749687343\" width=\"852\" height=\"479\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/lincolns-private-letters-on-sectional-crisis-1855\/\">Lincoln&#8217;s private letters on sectional crisis (1841, 1855)<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/view\/2748531046\" width=\"852\" height=\"479\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Moral Outrage vs. Political Calculation and the Question of Defining an Audience<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation\u2019s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.&#8221; &#8211;Douglass, July 5, 1852<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also acknowledge your rights and my obligations, under the constitution, in regard to your slaves. I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down, and caught, and carried back to their stripes, and unrewarded toils; but I bite my lip and keep quiet.&#8221; &#8211;Lincoln, August 24, 1855<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4612\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM-300x252.png\" alt=\"Lincoln in 1854\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM-1024x861.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM-768x646.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM-357x300.png 357w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-9.27.11-PM.png 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;You enquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point. I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist. When I was at Washington I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times, and I never heard of any one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?&#8221; &#8211;Lincoln to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYP854GAPAU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqZJc7B8xsc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/11\/Handout-Douglass-Fifth-of-July.pdf\">Handout &#8211;Douglass Fifth of July<\/a> (for full text, see <em>Portable Douglass<\/em>, pp. 195-222<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timeline excerpt for mid-1850s 1850 \/\/ Compromise includes admission of California as free state and tougher Fugitive Slave Law 1851 \/\/ Christiana resistance signals ongoing battles over personal liberty and fugitive slaves 1854 \/\/ Kansas-Nebraska Act and emergence of Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/course-syllabus\/other-lincoln-douglass-debates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4604\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}