Chicago newspaper predicts Lincoln will be Douglas's successor in Senate

The Chicago Journal, a leading Republican newspaper, predicts that Abraham Lincoln will be "the successor of Stephen A. Douglas in the U.S. Senate." (By Matthew Pinsker)
Source Citation
"The Lincoln Log," May 21, 1857, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, http://thelincolnlog.org/view/1857/5/21

 

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Legal/Political
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Personal
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