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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone."
But he was not to "sink out of view and be forgotten." Douglas
himself contributed not a little toward keeping his name before
the public; for shortly after their contest was ended the
reelected senator started on a trip through the South to set
himself right again with the Southern voters, and in every speech
that he made he referred to Lincoln as the champion of
"abolitionism." In this way the people were not allowed to forget
the stand Lincoln had taken, and during the year 1859 they came
to look upon him as the one man who could be relied on at all
times to answer Douglas and Douglas's arguments.
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