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Sturdy integrity or of more unflinching purpose. >> weed's endorsement comes just in time as the campaign ratchets up. douglas focuses his attack on lincoln. >> if you desire negro citizenship, then support mr. lincoln and the black republican party. >> his weapon -- race hate. >> he accuses lincoln of being in favor of race mixing, in favor of black equality. he calls him a black republican. he calls him thinks far worse. >> lincoln did a lot of things that today seem unethical, but he never appealed to the darker angels of our nature. and douglas did. and stephen douglas should have been ash...

And to tell his story. >> i spent my first night on the it was cold, but nothing compared to my days in ol' master's house. >> be silent! >> now, gentmen, if you take issue with today's lecture... >> the idea that the north was on the side of virtue and the south was where all the racists were located, that's wrong. >> aah! ♪ ♪ >> though frederick douglass escapes to the north in the search of freedom, he's still a fugitive from the law. any white northerners at the time, particularly members of the democratic party, do not believe in black equality. they too fear the consequences of emanc...