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It was a happy ending to the suspense of many of his friends. The speech, as a whole, placed Lincoln in his home city far above the position he had occupied before as a thinker and a speaker. It ended Editor Wright's satire. Thence- forward none of his friends doubted his ability to 240 Abraham Lincoln meet Douglas in the campaign, for which this was the opening challenge. Within a few days the office began to receive letters deploring the advanced position taken so early in the campaign, and p...rophecies of disaster followed if Lincoln should prosecute the campaign on "this abolition basis." Had this reaction- ary wave come two years earlier it would have distressed Lincoln. Not so now. Mature study had established him too firmly to be shaken. The criticisms became less frequent. Portions of this speech, published all over the Union, were the first political introduction of Lincoln to the national public. It was a remarkable position to be taken at that time. It touched the national conscience, North and South, both for and against its princi- ples .
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