for the senate, and stephen a. douglas was an outrageous racist. he played the race card shamelessly in that 1858 -- and not just in the debates, which you're familiar, but in all kinds of other speeches which aren't published. douglas plays the race card shamelessly. i was recently in chicago visiting some friends, and i said to them, look, i've never been to see stephen a. douglas' grave or his monument, and i've been told it's in a pretty sketchy neighborhood. they said, no, no. i used to be an alderman there and they're okay. so they took me there. i thought in this day and age of statues being removed, i thought of all the statues being removed, stephen a. douglas, such a race baiter. i was surprised to see it hadn't been moved or spray painted. that's partly because it sits atop a 60 foot column. i thought maybe those other controversial statues should be put on a column 60 feet above the ground. lincoln started the 1858 campaign with a speech in chicago in july of that year, in which he said in his conclusion -- and i paraphrase but pretty cl

introduced by democratic senator stephen a. douglas of illinois, the kansas-nebraska act repealed the missouri compromise. that meant kansas and nebraska territories would be open to slavery. at this point some abolitionists lost hope for a bloodless termination of american slavery. meanwhile, former whigs who opposed slavery expansion came together with will mont proviso democrats to form the republican party. in illinois, ichabod coding, eastman, and love joy, who had close ties to the abolition movement led in organizing a state-level republican party. when they held their initial meeting during october 1854, lincoln did not attend. this was in part because he feared abolitionists' radicalism would dominate the meeting. as it turned out, the meeting adopted resolutions that were more radical than lincoln's views, but they were not abolitionist. the resolutions called for prohibiting slavery in all united states territories. they asserted that fugitive slaves had a right to jury trials. lincoln limited himself to opposing the repeal

there and i thought oh my god, and the day and age of statues being removed, i am surprised that stephen a douglas , i was surprised to see it had not been moved or even spray-painted or anything. and that is only because it sits atop a 60 foot column. i thought that maybe all of those other controversial statues should be put on columns 60 feet above the ground. -- lincoln start started the 1868 campaign in july of that year. conclusion, he said let's stop all this quibbling about one race being inferior and one race being superior, and one race being confined to inferior positions, and let's unite behind the declaration of independence and agree that all men are created equal. stephen f douglas hammers lincoln again and again for that. so we can feels cornered and goes to southern illinois -- lincoln feels cornered and goes to southern illinois, where the sentiment of racism was greater than the rest of the state, and makes that statement at the beginning of the speech, that -- blackople people should not be allowed to marry with whites and so on and so forth. but then lincoln clearly changes hi

against lincoln ran incumbent stephen douglas for a seat in the united states senate. during the campaign's famous debates, douglas repeatedly charged that lincoln was an abolitionist who advocated sexual amalgamation of the races. lincoln responded in part by declaring, i have always hated slavery. i think as much as any abolitionist, but unlike the great majority of abolitionists, lincoln rejected social and political racial equality. he declared immediately emancipation to be impossible. election,ng the 1858 1859 ofs expression in anti-slavery sentiment continued to fall short of abolitionist standards. therefore it is not surprising that lincoln's reaction to john on the october 1859 raid federal arsenal at harpers ferry, virginia diverged from that of abolitionists. following brown's execution, garrison wished success to every slave insurrection in the south. lincoln, in contrast described brown's rate as wrong and addicted it would not help end slavery. in a february 1860 speech, lincoln pledged the republican party would let slavery alone in the state for it exis

that is the beef he gets into a stephen douglas. the congress also has power over the internal slave trade, but that was a massive third rail in politics and no one was ruling to touch it because of what it might do to the union. students, to teach my what a 30 does lincoln have, and one thing you see consistent with lincoln throughout his public career is that he is trying to remind the american people the difference between personally what we wish would happen was slavery and officially what lincoln or douglas or any president or senator could do with regards to the institution of slavery. national, slavery local, which is to say domestic institution of the state. i don't know if anybody wants to comment on my statement. what to do you think of it? [laughter] >> i agree with the statement in terms of what the president could constitutionally do or the congress could constitutionally do, but there were abolitionists , radicals, dissolve the union, and dissolve the union means the u.s. army will not be able to back up the masters if

running against a divided field of democrats, including old rival stephen douglas, lincoln carries allnough to win the presidency, with less than 40% of the popular vote. [ crowd cheering ] >> even before lincoln takes office, there was a push for southern secession. slave owners see him as the political equivalent of john brown. the irony is that the president-elect believes the right to own slaves is protected under the constitution. but six weeks after the election, south carolina is the first to secede, and six more states soon follow. [ cheers and applause ] >> the confederate states of america comes into existence with jefferson davis as its president. an army officer, veteran of the mexican war. >> the time for compromise has now passed. >> it's very hard for a southern politician to resist the force of secession, especially if jefferson davis was. this is a guy who thought he was gonna be president of the united states. >> the south is determined to maintain her position and make all who oppose her smell southern powder and feel southern steel. [ crowd cheering ] [ beeps ] >> t

running against a divided field of democrats, including old rival stephen douglas, lincoln carries allo win the presidency, with less than 40% of the popular vote. [ crowd cheering ] >> even before lincoln takes office, there was a push for southern secession. slave owners see him as the political equivalent of john brown. the irony is that the president-elect believes the right to own slaves is protected under the constitution. but six weeks after the election, south carolina is the first to secede, and six more states soon follow. [ cheers and applause ] >> the confederate states of america comes into existence with jefferson davis as its president. an army officer, veteran of the mexican war. >> the time for compromise has now passed. >> it's very hard for a southern politician to resist the force of secession, especially if jefferson davis was. this is a guy who thought he was gonna be president of the united states. >> the south is determined to maintain her position and make all who oppose her smell southern powder and feel southern steel. [ crowd cheering ] [ beeps ] >> there's

a justice to the supreme court and he chose wisely. he nominated the quirkily brilliant john paul stephens to replace the very quickie william o. douglassident ford, stevens was a decorated navy veteran from world war ii and went on to be the third longest serving justice in all time. he left the court in 2010, private live expressed some regret in the years since that he might have left too soon. put it this way, he's 97 and this week he has written a searing op-ed piece in "the new york times" and the nra doesn't like it one bit. for starters, there's the title. it's called "repeal the second amendment." in it he writes about the student-led demonstrations we witnessed this past weekend. he said "these demonstrations demand our respect, they reveal the broad public support for legislation and minimize the risk of mass killings of students and others in our societies but the demonstrators should seek more effective and more. concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment. today he writes that concern is a relic of the 18th century. stevens goes on

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