Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Compromise of 1850

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Lincoln speaks on the Compromise of 1850 that led to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Michael Krebs portrays Abraham Lincoln in reenactment at the lone surviving Lincoln-Douglas Debate site. More information about this debate is available at www.abrahamlincolnperformance.com/debate.html.

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  • Why does Lincoln have such a crazy look in his eye?

  • Boy C-Span is really behind in the news...

  • Maybe someday someone will defeat the RepubliCrats, who could lead a "government of the people, by the people (&) for the people."

  • ps....besides if a caveman can do it-- it has to be easy, right? Sorry dude- I had too.

  • I got to agree with the caveman- and therefore disagree with you 100%. America 'is' an on going experiment. But, just as prior to the Civil War, this country will live on in one shape or condition. It may not be united as we know it today- but it will live on, change, eradiate itself, cleanse and rise up just as it did during the 'reconstruction period.' That's the beauty of this nation- free speech- not all will agree and that's what makes us damn Yankees 'One Nation Under God.' USA!

  • i dont agree

  • The media has been bought and sold in the marketplace as the pols. are. It is all propaganda now. After replying to you beofre I thought of Biill Moyers Journal

    on modern media and how free speech is gone. Watch this and learn as I did.

    There is hope as long as we know.

  • Insitutions do not die,they don't live

    and only exist as long as the sun shines and humanity lives ie, the church

    deomcratic systems , agriculture.

  • I found it made me sad that we (citizens of the United States) no longer have a political system where politicians feel they *must* speak to us as reasoning people. When did the great experiment turn into sound bites and media buys? How long until the "last, best hope of the planet" turns to dust? This video crushed any hope I held that the US holds a place in the future. Though I knew it, like all things, must die.

  • This really was awesome. Was it really supposed to be like that back then?

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