Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American PoliticsJohnson, Allen
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Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics
Johnson, Allen
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861
[Footnote 783: _Globe_, 35 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 1243.]
[Footnote 784: _Globe_, 35 Cong., 2: Sess., p. 1245.]
[Footnote 785: _Ibid._, pp. 1247-1248.]
[Footnote 786: _Globe_, 35 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 1259.]
[Footnote 787: _Ibid._, p. 1258.]
[Footnote 788: _Globe_, 35 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 1256.]
[Footnote 789: _Ibid._, p. 1243.]
[Footnote 790: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 371.]
[Footnote 791: _Ibid._, pp. 369-370.]
[Footnote 792: Letter to J.B. Dorr, June 22, 1859; Flint, Douglas, pp.
168-169.]
[Footnote 793: Letter to J.L. Peyton, August 2, 1859; Sheahan,
Douglas, pp. 465-466.]
[Footnote 794: Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September, 1859; see Debates,
p. 250.]
[Footnote 795: On his return to Washington after the debates, Douglas
said to Wilson, "He [Lincoln] is an able and honest man, one of the
ablest of the nation. I have been in Congress sixteen years, and there
is not a man in the Senate I would not rather encounter in debate."
Wilson, Slave Power in America, II, p. 577.]
[Footnote 796: It does not seem likely that Douglas hoped to reach the
people of the South through _Harper's Magazine_, as it never had a
large circulation south of Mason and Dixon's line. See Smith, Parties
and Slavery, p. 292.]
[Footnote 797: _Harper's Magazine_, XIX, p. 527.]
[Footnote 798: Compare the quotation in _Harper's_, p. 531, with the
opinion of the Court, U.S. Supreme Court Reports, 19 How., p. 720. The
clause beginning "And if the Constitution recognizes" is taken from
its own paragraph and put in the middle of the following paragraph.]
[Footnote 799: _Globe_, 36 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 2152. This statement was
confirmed by Reverdy Johnson, who was one of the lawyers that argued
the case. See the speech of Reverdy Johnson, June 7, 1860.]
[Footnote 800: Rhodes, History of the United States, II., p. 374.]
[Footnote 801: Washington _Constitution_, September 10, 1859. The
article was afterward published in a collection of his essays and
speeches.]
[Footnote 802: Flint, Douglas, p. 181.]
[Footnote 803: One of the most interesting commentaries on Black's
argument is his defense of the people of Utah, many years later,
against the Anti-Polygamy Laws, when he used Douglas's argument
without the slightest qualms. See Essays and Speeches, pp. 603, 604,
609.]
[Footnote 804: Flint, Douglas, pp. 172-181 gives extracts from these
pamphlets.]
[Footnote 805: Rhodes History of United States, II, p. 381.]
[Footnote 806: _Ibid._, p. 382.]
[Footnote 807: New York _Times_, September 9, 1859.]
[Footnote 808: _Ibid._, September 9, 1859.]
[Footnote 809: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, pp.
374-379.]
CHAPTER XVIII
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860
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