Today in History we watched a video about Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglass's speeches. Lincoln thought that the nation should not be divided into slave and free, the Dred Scott case was unconstittuional and not a fair decision for slavery because Dred truely was supposed to be free, wanted slavery to be abolished, and thought America being divided was not a good solution. Douglass's speech was a lot different. Douglass spoke of how he thought that disturbing the topic of slavery would only cause chaos, and he agreed with the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.
In English today we began talking about Huckleberry Finn. We began class by receiving loads of papers for our notebooks including the Anticipation Guide for Huckleberry Finn. This guide had many statements on it requiring you to fill out how much you agree with each one. The statement I used for the second part of the Anticipation Guide was: If something is wrong to everyone else it should be wrong for you. I strongly disagreed with this statement because everyone is different and entitled to their own opinions on things. If everyone thought the same things were wrong, then there would be no diversity.
In my opinion, Abraham Lincoln's speech was far better than Douglass's. Lincoln supported his theorys better and just took an overall better approach to the subject. Douglass came across as lazy because his veiw was just to leave it alone and not cause chaos. Lincoln knew that in order to be affective in this matter, choas would need to happen, otherwise how would he get other's attention pointed towards his veiw.
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