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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stephen A. Douglas, by Allen Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Author: Allen Johnson Release Date: March 30, 2005 [EBook #15508] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net). * * * * * +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | |Original spellings and inconsistent hyphenation have been kept,| |including the earlier spelling variant Douglass. | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS: A STUDY IN AMERICAN POLITICS By ALLEN JOHNSON PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN BOWDOIN COLLEGE; SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN IOWA COLLEGE New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1908 _All rights reserved_ * * * * * COPYRIGHT 1908 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published February 1908 THE MASON-HENRY PRESS SYRACUSE, N.Y. * * * * * To PROFESSOR JESSE MACY whose wisdom and kindliness have inspired a generation of students PREFACE To describe the career of a man who is now chiefly remembered as the rival of Abraham Lincoln, must seem to many minds a superfluous, if not invidious, undertaking. The present generation is prone to forget that when the rivals met in joint debate fifty years ago, on the prairies of Illinois, it was Senator Douglas, and not Mr. Lincoln, who was the cynosure of all observing eyes. Time has steadily lessened the prestige of the great Democratic leader, and just as steadily enhanced the fame of his Republican opponent. The following pages have been written, not as a vindication, but as an interpretation of a personali
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