Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857-1861University of Texas Press, 1971 - 342 pages This biography places particular emphasis on Douglas's struggles with President James Buchanan, his debates with Lincoln, the presidential campaign of 1860, and his complex relationship with the South. -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 58
... principle as intrinsic to the political spirit of a people as popular sovereignty was to Americans is rarely invented or even discovered by a single person . It almost seems to grow up sui generis and is from time to time clarified and ...
... principle as intrinsic to the political spirit of a people as popular sovereignty was to Americans is rarely invented or even discovered by a single person . It almost seems to grow up sui generis and is from time to time clarified and ...
Page 60
... principle . It was only during the debates on the Kansas - Nebraska bill four years later that Douglas revealed that the earlier compromise had established a universal principle controlling all future territorial policy . In 1854 ...
... principle . It was only during the debates on the Kansas - Nebraska bill four years later that Douglas revealed that the earlier compromise had established a universal principle controlling all future territorial policy . In 1854 ...
Page 76
... principle was a mere personal and political expedient masquerading as a great national principle . In the North the self - consciously amoral tenets of the hard side of Douglas ' program were often simply dismissed as immoral.55 Douglas ...
... principle was a mere personal and political expedient masquerading as a great national principle . In the North the self - consciously amoral tenets of the hard side of Douglas ' program were often simply dismissed as immoral.55 Douglas ...
Contents
Douglas and Goliath | 12 |
Popular Sovereignty | 55 |
The LincolnDouglas Debates | 81 |
Copyright | |
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