Excerpts from the Book 'The Life Of Stephen A Douglas':

... race of thoroughly Democratic pioneers to whom the rough victor at New Orleans was a hero in war and a master in statecraft. Douglas was an enthusiastic ...
... and permitted to go in peace or continue a minor adjunct of the great aristocratic Republic. Already the irrepressible conflict had begun. Douglas ...
... sovereignty embodied in the bill was not only eminently just and in harmony with the spirit of our institutions but entirely harmless, inasmuch as the ...
... disposed to wash their hands of all responsibility for the law, to deprecate its existence, but, since it had been pronounced a final Compromise, to ...
... prepared to make the sacrifice. I will do it.. The bluff Kentuckian was much affected, and with deep emotion exclaimed: Sir, I once recognized you ...
... and corrupting influence of party politics. He afterwards said in bitter jest, on my return home I traveled from Boston to Chicago in the light ...
... sagacity than Seward. He had more patience with temporary error, more serene faith in the health and sanity of human nature than any of the three. He ...
... was without party standing in that state, and proposed that they sign a joint resignation, thus submitting their quarrel to the people. But there was ...
... Judges delivered their memorable opinions. At this time the Court consisted of five Southern Democrats, two Northern Democrats, one Whig and one Republican. ...
... legislation prescribing adequate remedies for its violation. These regulations and remedies must depend entirely upon the will and wishes of the people ...
... President regretted that the Constitution was not submitted to the people, although he knew that if it had been submitted it would have been rejected. ...
... Democracy, consisting of the Federal office holders and those democrats who condemned his anti-Lecompton battle, held a Convention at Springfield, ...
... the sovereignty of the States, the right of each State and each Territory to settle its domestic concerns for itself and the duty of each to ...
... cost of offending the other section. But Douglas was further embarrassed by the necessity of avoiding offense to the slave holding States of the South. ...
... it should live so long, in the States where it exists yet it would be going out of existence in the way best for both the black and the white races. ...
... and meaning of the act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people perfectly free to ...
... the Dred Scott decision and in the next breath, with shocking inconsistency, dissolved its entire force in the menstruum of unfriendly legislation. ...
... But no Northern man, whether Democrat or Republican, would ever vote for such a code. The inhabitants would protect slavery if they wanted it, if the ...
... the course of the seceders at Charleston, advising them to take no action at Richmond, but to await the result of the Baltimore Convention and expressing ...
... And HealthStephen Valentine Patrick William Steve Allen (December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, musician, ...