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Stephen Arnold Douglas (né Douglass; April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois.A U.S. Senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln.
4 Douglas's beliefs. 5 comments. 5 Legacy. ... 1 comment. 7 The Kansas Nebraska Act. 8 Stephen Douglas as a Visionary. 9 For or Against Slavery? 10 standard format.
The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.Former one-term U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was campaigning to take Douglas's U.S. Senate seat by strongly opposing all attempts to expand the geographic area in which slavery was permitted.
The speech, with its specific arguments against slavery, was an important step in Abraham Lincoln's political ascension. The 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act , written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, was designed by Stephen A. Douglas , then the chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories.
Douglass argues that religion is the center of the problem but also the main solution to it. Douglass then returns to the topic of the founding of the United States. He argues that the Constitution does not permit slavery, contrary to the claims of contemporary defenders of the institution. He refers to the Constitution as a "Glorious Liberty ...
The opposition to slavery began during the Age of Enlightenment, which ideas of the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge, and liberty. The first statement against slavery in Colonial america was drafted by Francis Daniel Pastorius who was a leader in a Quaker Church. In the United States, the southern slavocracy was an expression ...
In his celebrated "House Divided" speech of June 1858, Abraham Lincoln charged that Senator Stephen A. Douglas, President James Buchanan, his predecessor, Franklin Pierce, and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney were all part of a plot to nationalize slavery, as allegedly proven by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857. [10]
Douglas stated that while slavery may have been legally possible, the people of the state could refuse to pass laws favourable to slavery. In his famous "House Divided Speech" in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln stated: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.