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Lincoln was not only a political moralist of the greatest degree, but he also had an inborn talent in the Machiavellian arrangement of power. This is a very extraordinary combination of characteristics. It gave the antislavery cause the type of strategic foresight that was all too frequently deficient in abolitionism.
Best Answer: Abraham Lincoln became famous because of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. These were a series of seven debates between Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign. The main issue concerned slavery and its extension into the territories. The American defeat of Mexico in the previous war had added new territories.