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…showed last 75 words of 1036 total…to support the expansion of U.S. territory. He was a leader and became sensitive to negotiating the spread of slavery into these new territories. He did not want a congressional election but a popular election to see if would be a slave or a free state. In 1858 Douglas ran against a very well known man Abraham Lincoln for a congressional seat and won. But two years later Lincoln became President. (Northern city Journal, text)