Today in History

June 16, 1858

Abraham Lincoln Accepts Illinois Republican Nomination for Senate

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." With these words, Abraham Lincoln accepted the Illinois Republican Party nomination for Senate. The now famous quote was a fitting beginning to the well-publicized and dramatic Lincoln-Douglas Debates between Lincoln and Democratic nominee Stephen Douglas. The debates often revolved around slavery, with Lincoln advocating an anti-expansionist view of slavery (i.e. not allowing new states entering the union to have legal slavery). Lincoln would lose the race to Douglas, but his powerful speeches, reprinted all over the United States, would help secure him the Presidency of the United States two years later.

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