{"id":362,"date":"2009-06-22T09:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:58:12","slug":"trace-the-lincoln-douglas-debates-through-lincoln-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/22\/trace-the-lincoln-douglas-debates-through-lincoln-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trace The Lincoln Douglas Debates Through Lincoln Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/1858_08_25_colfax_1preview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/1858_08_25_colfax_1preview-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/1858_08_25_colfax_1preview-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/1858_08_25_colfax_1preview.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>In 1858, many important ideas were spread through letters.\u00a0 Thus, during the Lincoln Douglas Debates, Lincoln and Douglas corresponded with many contemporaries concerning the senatorial race.\u00a0 These letters provide an excellent window into the minds of these great men.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/index.phpnode\/26408\">One such letter<\/a>, sent August 25, 1858, was a letter written to Lincoln by Schuyler Colfax advising Lincoln on such matters as the Dred Scott Decision and the spread of slavery.\u00a0 This is just one letter of many found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/index.phpnode\/9602\">documents section<\/a> of the Lincoln Douglas major topic page.\u00a0 House Divided has a dearth of information concerning the Lincoln Douglas Debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1858, many important ideas were spread through letters.\u00a0 Thus, during the Lincoln Douglas Debates, Lincoln and Douglas corresponded with many contemporaries concerning the senatorial race.\u00a0 These letters provide an excellent window into the minds of these great men.\u00a0 One such letter, sent August 25, 1858, was a letter written to Lincoln by Schuyler Colfax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,172],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-letters-diaries","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}