Stephen Douglas quotes
Stephen Douglas was an American politician and lawyer, most famous for his debates with Abraham Lincoln. A prominent supporter of popular sovereignty, he played a major role in the politics of the mid-19th century United States. He is best remembered for his influence on issues leading up to the Civil War. Here are 9 of his quotes:
Mr. Lincoln simply contented himself at the outset by saying, that he was not in favor of social and political equality between the white man and the negro, and did not desire the law so changed as to make the latter voters or eligible to office. I am glad that I have at last succeeded in getting an answer out of him upon this question of negro citizenship and eligibility to office, for I have been trying to bring him to the point on it ever since this canvass commenced.
Stephen Douglas
The framers of the Constitution well understood that each locality, having separate and distinct interests, required separate and distinct laws, domestic institutions, and police regulations adapted to its own wants and its own condition; and they acted on the presumption, also, that these laws and institutions would be as diversified and as dissimilar as the States would be numerous, and that no two would be precisely alike, because the interests of no two would be precisely the same.
Stephen Douglas
Thus you see, that when addressing the Chicago Abolitionists he declared that all distinctions of race must be discarded and blotted out, because the negro stood on an equal footing with the white man; that if one man said the Declaration of Independence did not mean a negro when it declared all men created equal, that another man would say that it did not mean another man; and hence we ought to discard all difference between the negro race and all other races, and declare them all created equal.
Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas
Occupation: American Politician
Born: April 23, 1813
Died: June 3, 1861
Quotes count: 9
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