_Candidate for Senate_. Accepts compromise although recognizing its futility; favors Scott in 1852; answers Douglas's defense of Nebraska bill; escapes connection with Abolitionists; renews attack upon Douglas; candidate for Senate; leads in first ballots; injured by Abolitionist praise; urges friends to secure election of Trumbull; his alleged bargain with Trumbull; receives vote for Vice-President in Republican National Convention; his surprise; his opinion of Kansas question; delivers speech at organization of Republican party; meets disapproval at Springfield; in campaign of 1856; encounters hostility of Greeley in the East; journey of Herndon in his behalf; nominated by State Convention for senatorship; damaged by Whig support of Douglas; prepares letter of acceptance; reads paragraph on situation to friends; alarms advisers by his plainness of utterance; insists on asserting the irrepressible conflict; statesmanship of his course; challenges Douglas to joint debate; misrepresentations of his position on slavery; his appeal to "the fathers"; his accusation against the South; his crucial question to Douglas; Douglas's reply; his position on Dred Scott decision; accused of duplicity; his views as to slavery under the Constitution considered; on Abolitionists; on negro race; his freedom from animosity toward opponents or slaveholders; does not denounce slaveholders; his fairness a mental trait; on popular sovereignty; convicts Douglas of ambiguity; alleged purpose to discredit Douglas as presidential candidate; feels himself upholder of a great cause; his moral denunciation of slavery; his literary form; elevation of tone; disappointed at defeat by Douglas; exhausted by his efforts; asked to contribute to campaign fund. _Candidate for Presidency_. Makes speeches in Ohio; calls Douglas pro-slavery; invited to speak in New York, prepares address; journey through Kansas; his New York address; states the situation; praised by newspapers; tour in New England; comprehensive nature of his speeches; ignores disunion; by dwelling on wrong of slavery, makes disunion wrong; slow to admit publicly a desire for presidency; enters field in 1859; nominated as candidate by Illinois Republican Convention; his managers at National Convention; yelled for by hired shouters; supposed to be more moderate than Seward; his own statement of principles; votes secured for, by bargains; nominated on third ballot; accepts nomination in dejection; his nomination a result of "availability"; little known in country at large; anxious to avoid discussion of side issues; opposed by Abolitionists; supported by Giddings; elected; the choice of a minority.