Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Remarks of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, on the Compromise Measures
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Author: Perley Orman RayPublisher:
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Category : Missouri compromise
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854 stands conspicuous as a turning point of the American slavery controversy. It put an end forever to the long series of accommodations between the territorial claims of slavery and freedom. An apparently innocent bill to organize a territorial government west of the Missouri River provoked a gigantic and picturesque parliamentary duel in the Senate Chamber of the United States, and with the termination of that last gladiatorial combat in the arena of Congress, the day had passed for peaceful adjustments and for compromises based on mutual good faith. The estrangement of the sections was irreconcilable. The appeal to arms was the only and inevitable means of ending forever the irrepressible conflict. To advance a new explanation of the circumstances under which the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was conceived, and how the repeal happened in 1854 is the main purpose of this book.
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, Its Origin and Authorship
Author: Perley Orman RayPublisher:
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Category : Missouri compromise
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Slavery, a Bibliography and Union List of the Microform Collection
Author: Microfilming Corporation of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Lincoln and Douglas
Author: Allen C. GuelzoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring the country to war. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. Two years later, he was elected president and was on his way to becoming the greatest chief executive in American history. What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country’s most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. As this brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation. Lincoln lost that Senate race to Douglas, though he came close to toppling the “Little Giant,” whom almost everyone thought was unbeatable. Guelzo’s Lincoln and Douglas brings alive their debates and this whole year of campaigns and underscores their centrality in the greatest conflict in American history. The encounters between Lincoln and Douglas engage a key question in American political life: What is democracy's purpose? Is it to satisfy the desires of the majority? Or is it to achieve a just and moral public order? These were the real questions in 1858 that led to the Civil War. They remain questions for Americans today.
Abolitionism and American Law
Author: John R. McKiviganPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815331094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This volume's essays reveal that the abolitionists' impact on United States law and the Constitution did not end with the Civil War. The immediate postwar Reconstruction amendments were both rooted in the radically anti-positivistic, natural rights philosophy long espoused by the radical political abolitionists. Implementing protection for black civil rights, however, proved much more difficult.
Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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