and douglas would campaign week after week for hayes, garfield etc. and sometimes he would wonder why because that republican party was really changing and abandoning his cause, because of emancipation, civil rights, black voting rights, the 14th-- 13th, 14th and 15th amendment, but he never gave up on the republican party into rounder that out, it's quite an issue today like all great questions in history. this has a huge legacy because today let's just call them libertarians, the republican right libertarian right and the cato institute right loves to appropriate douglas because he was a staunch proponent of self-reliance, a little plaques raising themselves by their own institution and their own hard work in their own authority and so on, but everyone in the 19th century to speak of was a proponent of self-reliance, that's not unusual, but sometimes the ways it's a pro- trade in political discussion, the way douglas is appropriated drives me bit crazy because to do that you have to ignore his entire life of radical abolition , but it's good news be