in his debate with stephen douglas, lincoln attacked the concept that stephen douglas believed in so fervently. popular sovereignty. douglas' notion that people in territory should define for themselves whether they wanted slavery. lincoln asked a hypothetical question, whether douglas would apply popular sovereignty to mexico where the inhabitants were nonwhite. when we shall get mexico, lincoln asserted, i do not know whether judge douglas will be in favor of the mexican people because we know the judge has a great horror for mongrels and i understand that the people of mexico are most decidedly a race of mongrels. lincoln continued by explaining -- i understand that there is not more than one person there out of eight who is pure white. i suppose from the judge's declaration that when we get mexico or a considerable portion of that, he will be in favor of the mongrels, settling the question. that would bring him somewhat in collision with his horror of an inferior race. even if you make allowance for the fact that some of these comments occurred by abraham lincoln in a hotly conte

she took me i had to be stephen douglas. [laughter] swore that i would study abraham lycan for the rest of my life and try to make a contribution. for the restncoln of my life and try to make a contribution. i am a product of the virginia public schools and i can tell you that very little of abraham lincoln was said flatteringly in the state of virginia as i was growing up. were glowingments counteredo what i can when i into south carolina in 1984. when my present competence is the fact -- proudest accomplishments in the fact that i have been teaching courses to packed classrooms on abraham lincoln in the state of south carolina which i don't think it's a small accomplishment whatsoever. [laughter] you what io tell tell my students before each class. come back with me in history, fasten your seatbelts, we're going to take a magic carpet ride tonight through the study abrahamim we can -- lincoln and his relationship with immigrants. may 4, 1865. oak ridge cemetery. springfield, illinois. the weather is warm in the sun is peek

there was contingent sent to him in congress involving stephen douglas and one of the people pierce paidclose attention to and took advice from all the time, secretary of war, jefferson davis. they came to him with a bill, what they wanted to do was change the way slavery was regulated in the territories in kansas, nebraska, and davis asked him to write it out by hand and make sure it was what he wanted. pierce did that reluctantly but he did it. the law changed the way it was dealt with, the territories, it became a function of popular sovereignty. the territory, decided according to what the majority in different realms wanted. in kansas it didn't work out so well. what happened in kansas to make a long story short is there was a civil war. one part of kansas didn't want slavery. the others coming into kansas wanted to oppose slavery and it was a challenge for pierce to figure out which side to be on. there was never a doubt. pierce came down strongly on the side of slavery. not just trying to fit more than one but sending -- using a lot of force for the federal government. all the pow

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douglas moved to chicago from jacksonville, illinois. let me start at the beginning. stephen a. glas was a poor vermont boy, who came here to illinois, which was the frontier, and he became -- he was another self-made man, although he was well-educated, informally, and he made himself into what he considered to be a westerner. illinois was a predominantly democratic state, not a whig state. there was only one whig district in the state, which was around springfield, and douglas was the -- became very quickly, by his late 20s in and early 30s, the dominant political figure in the state. he created the convention system in order to control the party. he became a judge on the supreme court and then a senator. and immediately began setting himself up to run for president. he created the illinois central railroad through an act of congress, which was the first federal railroad created through federal act. the equivalent of the mississippi river from chicago to the gulf of mexico, and douglas owned up a ol' all the rice right of way land and he owned a mississippi plantation through th