Observations On Senator Douglas's Views Of Popular Sovereignty, As Expressed In Harpers' Magazine, For September, 1859
by Douglas, Stephen A
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Washington DC: Thomas McGill, 1859. Second Edition. Wraps. Very good. Second edition of Observations on Senator Douglas's Views of Popular Sovereignty, as Expressed in Harpers' Magazine, for September, 1859.. Octavo, 24pp. Stated "second edition" on title page. Original wraps, bound at spine with twine. Light toning to cover, generally clean text. (Sabin 20693) This followed the first edition the same year. Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) was a Democratic senator from Illinois, who ran against Lincoln in 1858 for the Senate seat from Illinois. Their eloquent debates, which would be published in 1860 as the Lincoln-Douglas Debates would help launch the presidential candidacy of Lincoln against Douglas in 1860. During his time in the Senate, Douglas advocated for the principle of popular sovereignty, which allowed new western territories to decide for themselves if slavery would be permitted within their borders. In 1850, he advocated for the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to keep an equal number of slave and non-slave holding states. In 1854, he passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, created the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and followed his principle of popular sovereignty, which allowed the new territories to decide for themselves if they wished to hold slaves. It had the opposite effect on the nation, stoking tensions in the north and solidifying the Republican party as the antislavery party. In the election of 1860, the Democratic party split between his candidacy and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. As the Civil War broke out, Douglas rallied support for the Union, but he died in 1861.
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- Title
- Observations On Senator Douglas's Views Of Popular Sovereignty, As Expressed In Harpers' Magazine, For September, 1859
- Author
- Douglas, Stephen A
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- Second edition of Observations on Senator Douglas's Views of Popular Sovereignty, as Expressed in Harpers' Magazine, for Septemb
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- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
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- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas McGill
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- Lincoln Douglas Debates, popular sovereignty, speech of honorable Stephen Douglas, Stephen A Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty in the territories,
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