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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Charleston, S. C. (search)
y wing of the convention, who, it is said, desired rather to strike down the Democratic party, to obtain more important advantages for themselves. They had come instructed to demand from the convention a candidate and an avowal of principles which should promise a guarantee for the speedy recognition by the national government and the people, in a political way, of the system of slavery as a national institution. The most prominent candidate for the Presidency in the convention was Stephen A. Douglas, who was committed to an opposite policy concerning slavery, and whose friends would never vote for the demands of the extreme pro-slavery men. This the latter well knew. They also knew that the rejection of Mr. Douglas by the representatives of the slaveholders would split the Democratic party, and they resolved to act, it is said, in accordance with their convictions. They held the dissevering wedge in their own hands, and they determined to use it with effect. A committee of one
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 (search)
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 Statesman; born in Brandon, Vt., April 23, 1813; learned the business of cabinet-making; studied law; became an auctioneer's clerk in Jacksonville, Ill.; and tat was defeated by Abraham Lincoln. He died in Chicago, Ill., June 3, 1861. See Kansas. The Douglas-Lincoln debate. In opening this famous debate, in Ottawa, Ill., on Aug. 21, 1858, Mr. DouglaMr. Douglas spoke as follows: Ladies and Gentlemen,—I appear before you to-day for the purpose of discussing the leading political topics which now agitate the public mind. By an arrangement between Mr.ion which now agitates the Union. I say that the Whig party and the Democratic party Stephen Arnold Douglas. agreed on the slavery question, while they differed on those matters of expediency to ine Whigs, and transfer them over to Giddings, Chase, Fred Douglass, and Par- Monument to Stephen A. Douglas. son Lovejoy, who were ready to receive them and christen them in their new faith. They
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Flint, Henry Martyn 1829-1868 (search)
Flint, Henry Martyn 1829-1868 Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 24, 1829; studied law and settled in Chicago, where he edited the Times in 1855-61. He was the author of a Life of Stephen A. Douglas; The history and statistics of the railroads of the United States; and Mexico under Maximilian. He died in Camden, N. J., Dec. 12, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Illinois. (search)
e.No. of Congress.Date. Ninian Edwards15th to 18th1818 to 1824 Jesse B. Thomas15th to 19th1818 to 1826 John McLean18th to 20th1824 to 1830 Elias Kent Kane19th to 23d1826 to 1835 David J. Baker21st1830 John M. Robinson21st to 27th1831 to 1841 William L. D. Ewing24th1836 United States Senators—Continued. Name.No. of Congress.Date. Richard M. Young25th to 27th1837 to 1843 Samuel McRoberts27th1841 to 1843 Sidney Breese28th to 31st1843 to 1849 James Semple28th1843 to 1846 Stephen A. Douglas29th to 37th1847 to 1861 James Shields31st to 33d1849 to 1855 Lymnan Trumbull34th to 42d1855 to 1871 Orville H. Browning37th1861 William A. Richardson37th to 39th1863 to 1865 Richard Yates39th to 42d1865 to 1871 John A. Logan42d to 45th1871 to 1877 Richard J. Oglesby43d to 46th1873 to 1878 David Davis45th to 47th1877 to 1883 John A. Logan46th to 49th1879 to 1886 Shelby M. Cullum48th to —1883 to — Charles B. Farwell50th to 51st1887 to 1891 John M. Palmer52d to 55th1891 to 189<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, Herschel Vespasian 1812-1880 (search)
Johnson, Herschel Vespasian 1812-1880 Legislator; born in Burke county, Ga., Sept. 18, 1812; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1834; appointed for an unexpired term to the United States Senate in 1848; elected judge of the Superior Court of Georgia in 1849; governor in 1853 and 1855. In the Civil War he was a member of the Confederate Senate; was elected to the United States Senate during the reconstruction period, but was not allowed to take his seat, and was appointed judge of the circuit court in 1873. In 1860 Mr. Johnson was the candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the ticket with Stephen A. Douglas. He died in Jefferson county, Ga., Aug. 16, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
are regarded as a final adjustment and a permanent settlement of the questions' therein embraced, and should be maintained and executed as such. Suddenly the agitation of the slavery question was vehemently aroused. In January, 1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, presented a bill in the Senate for the erection of two vast Territories in mid-continent, to be called, respectively, Kansas and Nebraska. The following are some of the principal provisions of this act: The executi United States troops, prevailed upon them to desist, and near the close of the year (1856) he was enabled to report that peace and order prevailed in Kansas. The author on his bill. The following is the substance of the speech of Senator Stephen A. Douglas on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, delivered in the Senate on March 3, 1854: The principle which we propose to carry into effect by the bill is this: That Congress shall neither legislate slavery into any Territories or State. nor out
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
d two emancipated slaves —the younger, a lad, offering a palm branch, and the elder pointing him to the American eagle, bearing the shield, the olive-branch, and the lightning, with the motto of the Union. The older freedman The House in which Lincoln died. holds the musket of the militia-man. Near them are the emblems of industry and progress. Over the altar is a triangle, emblematic of trinity—the trinity of man's inalienable rights—liberty, equality, and fraternity. Reply to Stephen A. Douglas. The speech of Senator Douglas, which is given in full in the article on that statesman, and the reply of Abraham Lincoln, which here follows, constitute what is known as the first Douglas and Lincoln debate. It was opened in Ottawa, Ill., Aug. 21, 1858. My fellow-citizens, when a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it proyokes him—at least, I find it so with myself, but, when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him. The first th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 (search)
ambition, to the success of the Republican party, convincing 300,000 nobles at the South, who have hitherto furnished us the most of the Presidents, generals, judges, and ambassadors we needed, that they would have leave to stay at home, and that 20,000,000 of Northerners would take their share in public affairs. I do not think that cause equal to the result. Other men before Jefferson Davis and Governor Wise have been disappointed of the Presidency. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Stephen A. Douglas were more than once disappointed, and yet who believed that either of these great men could have armed the North to avenge his wrong? Why, then, should these pygmies of the South be able to do what the giants I have named could never achieve? Simply because there is a radical difference between the two sections, and that difference is slavery. A party victory may have been the occasion of this outbreak. So a tea-chest was the occasion of the Revolution, and it went to the bottom of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Political parties in the United States. (search)
bers of other parties dissatisfied with the influx and power of the foreign element. Favored more stringent naturalization laws; reserved rights of States. Opposed foreign immigration; suffrage and office-holding by foreign-born citizens; efforts to reject the Bible from the public schools, etc. Nominated Millard Fillmore for President in 1856. Merged into the Constitutional Union party in 1860. See know-nothing party. Douglas Democrats, 1860 Northern Democrats, supporters of Stephen A. Douglas in the disruption of the Democratic party in 1860. Breckinridge Democrats party, 1860 Southern Democrats, supporters of Breckinridge in 1860. Constitutional Union party, 1860 Democrats, for the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of law; supporters of Bell and Everett. Liberal Republicans, 1872. Formed by dissatisfied Republicans, formerly mostly war Democrats. Favored greater leniency towards the Confederates. Nominated Horace Greeley for President, 1872.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential elections. (search)
e W. JulianInd.F. D. Daniel Webster (k)Mass.Whig1,670 1856. James Buchanan For foot-note references see page 291.PaDem1,838,169496,905174J. C. Breckinridge For foot-note references see page 291.KyDem174 John C. FremontCalRep1,341,264114William L. DaytonN. J.Rep114 Millard FillmoreN. Y.Amer874,5388A. J. DonelsonTennAmer8 1860. Abraham Lincoln For foot-note references see page 291.Ill.Rep1,866,352491,195180Hannibal Hamlin For foot-note references see page 291.MeRep180 Stephen A. DouglasIll.Dem1,375,15712H. V.JohnsonGaDem12 J. C. BreckinridgeKyDem845,76372Joseph LaneOreDem72 John BellTennUnion589,58139Edward EverettMass.Union39 Electoral and popular votes—Continued. Year of Election and Candidates for President.States.Political Party.Popular Vote.Plurality.Electoral Vote.Candidates for Vice-President.States.Political Party.Electoral Vote. 1864. Abraham Lincoln*Ill.Rep2,216,067407,342(e) 212Andrew Johnson*TennRep212 George B. McClellanN. J.Dem1,808,72521George
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