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MAKING AN ANTISLAVERY NATION LINCOLN, DOUGLAS, AND THE BATTLE OVER FREEDOM GRAHAM A. PECK Making an Antislavery Nation Making an Antislavery Nation Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom Graham A. Peck © 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Peck, Graham A., 1969– author. Title: Making an antislavery nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom / Graham A. Peck. Description: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifi ers: lccn 2017016680 (print) | lccn 2017017687 (ebook) | isbn 9780252099960 (ebook) | isbn 9780252041365 (cloth: alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Slavery—Political aspects—United States—History—19th century. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865. | Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813–1861. | Antislavery movements—United States— History—19th century. | United States—Politics and government—1783–1865. Classifi cation: lcce449 (ebook) | lcce449 .p39 2017 (print) | ddc 306.3/62097309034—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017016680 Cover illustration: Print of 1860 campaign banner with American fl ag (Philadelphia?: H. C. Howard, 1860: Library of Congress). to Rosemary, with love, gratitude, and aff ection Contents Maps ix Introduction 1 Prelude: An Inheritance of Slavery 13 1. Th e Nation’s Confl ict over Slavery in Miniature: Illinois, 1818–1824 17 2. Democrats, Whigs, and Party Confl ict, 1825–1842 34 3. Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and the Rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843–1847 54 4. Advocates for an Antislavery Nation, 1837–1848 72 5. Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democratic Origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849–1854 97 6. Th e Collapse of the Douglas Democracy, 1854–1860 123 7. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of an Antislavery Nationalism, 1854–1860 156 Conclusion: Th e Northern Democrats’ Dilemma over Slavery 184 Acknowledgments 195 Appendix 199 Notes 205 Index 253 Maps 1. Illinois Place Names 16 2. Vote against Convention Referendum, 1824 32 3. Illinois Regions 41 4. Combined Vote for President, Whig and Free Soil Parties, 1848 94 5. Vote for Congress, by District, 1854 130 6. Vote for President, by Party, 1856 168 7. Combined Vote for President, Republican and American Parties, 1856 169 8. Vote for President, Republican Party, 1860 180 Map Sources Howard W. Allen and Vincent A. Lacey, eds. Illinois Elections, 1818–1990: Candidates and County Returns for President, Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. (Maps 4–8) Charles N. Zucker. “Th e Free Negro Question: Race Relations in Ante-bellum Il- linois, 1801–1860.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 1972. Table II, 155. (Map 2) George Ryan, Secretary of State. Origin and Evolution of Illinois Counties. State of Illinois, 1994. (Maps 2–8) G. Woolworth Colton’s Railroad Map of Illinois. New York, 1861. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/98688465. (Map 1)