Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 550
nspire in his followers. 1906.] THE BOYS LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 413 In 1858, two years after this, another elec-tion took place in Illinois, on which the choiceof a United States senator depended. Thistime it was the term of Stephen A. Douglashimself that was drawing to a close. He him the Little… … STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. greatly desired reelection. There was but oneman in the State who could hope to rival him,and with a single voice the Republicans ofIllinois called upon Lincoln to oppose him.Douglas was indeed an opponent not to bedespised. His friends and followers called tagonists. They had…
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