Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
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Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on the "measures of Adjustment"
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Speech ... on the Measures of Adjustment, delivered in the City Hall, Chicago. October 23, 1850
Author: Stephen Arnold DOUGLASPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on the Measures of Adjustment
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on the Measures of Adjustment, Delivered in the City Hall, Chicago, October 23, 1850
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341839153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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SPEECH OF HON STEPHEN A DOUGLA
Author: Stephen Arnold 1813-1861 DouglasPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373811912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Speech on the "Measures of Adjustment" Delivered in Chicago, Oct. 23, 1850
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasSpeech of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, on the "Measures of Adjustment," Delivered in the City Hall, Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 23, 1850
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man
Author: Reg AnkromPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476642281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to organize Nebraska. In 1848, when America acquired 550,000 square miles after the Mexican War, the fight began over whether the territory would be free or slave. Henry Clay, a slave owner who favored gradual emancipation, packaged territorial bills from Douglas's committee with four others. But Clay's "Omnibus Bill" failed. Exhausted, he left the Senate, leaving Douglas in control. Within two weeks, Douglas won passage of all eight bills, and President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850. It was Douglas's greatest legislative achievement. This book, a sequel to the author's Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship, 1833-1843, fully details Douglas's early congressional career. The text chronicles how Douglas moved the issue of slavery from Congress to the ballot box.
Remarks of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, on the Compromise Measures
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Strife of Tongues
Author: Stephen E. MaizlishPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things." Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the Compromise of 1850 have been exhaustively studied, much of the language of the debate, where underlying beliefs and assumptions were revealed, has been neglected. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War—which would be free, which would allow slavery, and how the Fugitive Slave Law would be enacted. A Strife of Tongues tells the cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal political event through the lens of language, revealing the complex context of northern and southern ideological opposition within which the Civil War occurred a decade later. Deftly drawing on extensive records, from public discourse to private letters, Stephen Maizlish animates the most famous political characters of the age in their own words. This novel account reveals a telling irony—that the Compromise debates of 1850 only made obvious the hardening of sectional division of ideology, which led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the antebellum period and laid the foundations of the U.S. Civil War.