Lincoln-Douglas debate number 4, 1858.

CAMPAIGN debates; SLAVERY in the United States -- Extension to the territories; LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political & social views; UNITED States politics & government, 1857-1861; UNITED States history sources; MISSOURI compromise; LINCOLN-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858; UNITED States. Kansas-Nebraska Act; HISTORICAL source material; ANTISLAVERY movements; DOUGLAS, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861; HISTORY of political parties; HISTORY; POLITICAL attitudes

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The article presents the text of the fourth debate between American political candidates Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas on September 18, 1858, at Charleston. Lincoln begins with his views on social and political equality, intermarriage between white and black people, the Toombs bill, and Judge Trumbull's speech about the construction of the Kansas constitution. Senator Douglas offers his views on Lincoln's abolitionism, Trumbull's Alton speech, Freesoilism, the Black Republican and Whig parties, and the Compromise measures of 1850 allowing states to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. Lincoln replies to the issue of negro citizenship, mentions the Missouri Compromise, the Nebraska bill, and the Lecompton Constitution, and introduces Orlando B. Ficklin to support Lincoln's stance on the Mexican war.