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Out standing book, a very important one, too.
Give details that are entirely overlooked today -- like who got Kansas Act passed, and why. It was all about the spread of slavery -- and done because David Rice Atchison pushed Stephen A Douglas into it. Douglas would later claim, of course, he did it for the "great principle" of popular sovereignty. Nonsense -he did it to keep his powerful seat as Chairman of House and Senate Committee on Kansas, from which he derived much power.
Douglas was selling out anyone, and everyone, to get more power. He would later sell out Atchison and Davis, who he had thrown in with, in order to keep his Committee Chair and become likely President in 1860. If things had gone like Douglas planned, he would have be POTUS.
What prevented Douglas becoming POTUS -- the people in Kansas fought back against Atchison and Davis. Atchison and Davis thought they would bluff the Kansas citizens- not so much. Douglas helped Atchison and Davis light the match.
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Página 28 - He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Página 4 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...
Página 13 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either House of the Congress of the United States...
Página 5 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 16 - I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state Constitution.
Página 13 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Página 16 - Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if the people are opposed to slavery they will elect representatives to that body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst.
Página 5 - The powers over person and property of which we speak are not only not granted to Congress, but are in express terms denied, and they are forbidden to exercise them. And this prohibition is not confined to the States, but the words are general, and extend to the whole territory over which the Constitution gives it power to legislate, including those portions of it remaining nude r Territorial Government, as well as that covered by States. It is a total absence of power everywhere within the dominion...
Página 6 - The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guaranteed to the citizens of the United States, in every State that might desire it, for twenty years. And the Government in express terms is pledged to protect it in all future time, if the slave escapes from his owner.
Página 4 - That the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
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| Título | The Candidature for the Presidency in Eight Years of Stephen A. Douglas: His Selfishness, and the Duplicity in Principle of His Followers |
| Autor | Benjamin Franklin Butler |
| Editor | Advertiser Office--Hildreth & Hunt, printers, 1860 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 25 Ago. 2007 |
| Largo | 12 páginas |
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