History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850
History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850
Rhodes James Ford
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" When that Nebraska bill was brought forward, four years ago last January, was it not," he asked, "for the avowed object of putting an end to the slavery agitation? . . . We were for a little while quiet on the troublesome ' Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p. 181. « Ibid., p. 325. = Oct. 15tli. Ch. X.] THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES 335 thing, and that very allaying plaster of Judge Douglas's stirred it up again. . . . "When was there ever a greater agita- tion in Congress than last winter ? When was it... as great in the country as to-day? There was a collateral object in the introduction of that Nebraska policy, which was to clothe the people of the territories with a superior degree of self-government beyond what they had ever had before. . . . But have you ever heard or known of a people anywhere on earth who had as little to do as, in the first instance of its use, the people of Kansas had with this same right of self-government? In its main policy and in its collateral object, it has heen nothing hut a living, creeping lie from the time of its introduction till to-day.''^ ' Lincoln made a good argument drawn from the letter of the Constitution.
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