text:  So Douglass wanted to keep the country the way it was, free states, slave states. Lincoln did. Lincoln said, hey, you know, we've got to get rid of slavery because a house divided cannot stand on its own. He didn't say that during the debate, but that was his famous quote. Now, Douglass won the Senate race. Lincoln lost. But everybody in the country in 1858 knew where Abe Lincoln stood.