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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 838 2 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 280 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 246 2 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 80 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 10: (search)
s of Representation. on the Bill of rights. a finger point from Plymouth rock. reply to Mr. Douglas. a day of trial. Landmark of freedom. importance of the question at issue. iniquity of various modifications, the bill came before the Senate on the 30th of January, 1854, when Stephen A. Douglas made a violent attack on Mr. Chase of Ohio, and Mr. Sumner, for having signed a docuament,hstand the aggressions of the propagandists of the servile institution, Mr. Sumner replied to Mr. Douglas, characterizing the measure before the Senate as not only subversive of an ancient landmark, on of the Missouri Compromise, and to the plan of what was termed the squatter sovereignty of Mr. Douglas. Before the confederated host, two or three senators only stood up fearless and unterrified m something of the privileges of an American citizen. And perhaps the senator from Illinois [Mr. Douglas], who precipitated this odious measure upon the country, might learn from them something of p
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
gress. remarks of Mr. Sumner on the Reports of Messrs. Douglas and Collamer. his speech on the Admission of Kansas. the Exordium. reference to Mr. Douglas. the Nebraska Bill a Swindle. defence of Massachusetts. the the Senate of the United States, from the hour when Douglas presented his ill-omened measure for the repeal of duty to his country. Respecting the reports of Mr. Douglas and Mr. Collamer on affairs in Kansas, presented r. Sumner said, In the report of the majority (by Mr. Douglas) the true issue is smothered: in that of the minonibus, et plus quam bellum. He thus refers to Mr. Douglas, who, in subservience to the South, was moving onr that day than usual; and several senators, as Messrs. Douglas, Geyer, Toombs, Iverson, and Crittenden, togetht us go and take a drink. They did so; and Bright, Douglas, Edmundson, leaving the wounded man weltering in bloffering no assistance, of whom I recognized only Mr. Douglas of Illinois, Mr. Toombs of Georgia, and I thought
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 14: (search)
Chicago in May, 1860, nominated Abraham Lincoln — who had manifested his ability and his devotion to the cause of freedom especially in his controversy with Stephen A. Douglas in Illinois, and who had said, He who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave --as its candidate for the Presidential chair. John C. Breckenridge (nominated at Charleston, S. C.) was the Southern, Stephen A. Douglas the Northern Democratic, and John Bell (of Kentucky) the Union candidate. The grand question before the country was: Shall free or servile labor have the ascendency? Shall the vast territories of the Union come under the baleful domination of slavery, or be at the State Convention of the Republican party at Worcester, Aug. 29, he laid open the fallacy of the double-headed doctrine of popular sovereignty proposed by Mr. Douglas, who was ready to vote slavery up, or vote it down. So in open-air meetings at Myrick's Station, Sept. 18, and at Framingham, Oct. 11, he made an admirable vin