The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Together with Certain Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page xv
... fact itself overturned the Douglas theory of popular sovereignty or " squatter Sovereignty . " Douglas was only able to say that his sovereignty contention made provision for such control of domestic or local regulations as would make ...
... fact itself overturned the Douglas theory of popular sovereignty or " squatter Sovereignty . " Douglas was only able to say that his sovereignty contention made provision for such control of domestic or local regulations as would make ...
Page 5
... fact , whether the Lecompton Con- stitution was or was not in any just sense made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants is a fair vote for the people , and that he cares not whether slavery ...
... fact , whether the Lecompton Con- stitution was or was not in any just sense made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants is a fair vote for the people , and that he cares not whether slavery ...
Page 11
... fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty , and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point , upon which he and we have never differed . They remind us that he is a great man , and that the ...
... fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty , and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point , upon which he and we have never differed . They remind us that he is a great man , and that the ...
Page 30
... fact adds any greater weight o authority to the suggestion . It matters not wit me who was on the bench , whether Mr. Lincoln myself , whether a Lockwood or a Smith , a Taney a Marshall ; the decision of the highest tribuna known to the ...
... fact adds any greater weight o authority to the suggestion . It matters not wit me who was on the bench , whether Mr. Lincoln myself , whether a Lockwood or a Smith , a Taney a Marshall ; the decision of the highest tribuna known to the ...
Page 44
... fact , was wrong . It is enough for m purpose to ask this crowd whenever a Republica said anything against it . They never said anythin against it , but they have constantly spoken for i and whoever will undertake to examine the pla ...
... fact , was wrong . It is enough for m purpose to ask this crowd whenever a Republica said anything against it . They never said anythin against it , but they have constantly spoken for i and whoever will undertake to examine the pla ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln admission adopted agitation amendment answer believe candidate charge Chicago citizen clause Compromise measures Congress Congressional Convention decide Declaration of Independence Democratic party deny doctrine domestic institutions Douglas's Dred Scott decision election equality exclude slavery fact favor forgery form a constitution Freeport friends Fugitive Slave law hold Illinois indorsed interrogatories Judge Douglas Judge Trumbull Kansas Lecompton Constitution legislation Legislature Lincoln Lovejoy measures of 1850 ment Missouri Compromise nation Nebraska Bill negro never North old Whig opinion opposed Ottawa passed platform pledged political popular sovereignty President principle prohibit proposition provision race repeat Republican party resolutions slavery question South speech Springfield stand stitution submitted suppose Supreme Court tell Territory thing tion to-day Toombs bill true Trumbull says Trumbull's ultimate extinction United States Senate vote Washington Union Whig party