Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ere pro-60 became involved in controversy with claimed wherever the Constitution ruledPresident Buchanan. He was a candidate or the American flag waved over theof the Democratic party in 1860 for Presi- American soil. So it was and so it isdent of the United States, but was de- with the great Democratic party, which,fcated by Abraham Lincoln. He died in from the days of Jefferson until thisChicago, 111., June 3, 1861. See Kansas, period, has proven itself to be the historic The D
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ere pro-60 became involved in controversy with claimed wherever the Constitution ruledPresident Buchanan. He was a candidate or the American flag waved over theof the Democratic party in 1860 for Presi- American soil. So it was and so it isdent of the United States, but was de- with the great Democratic party, which,fcated by Abraham Lincoln. He died in from the days of Jefferson until thisChicago, 111., June 3, 1861. See Kansas, period, has proven itself to be the historic The Douglas-Lincoln Delate.—In open- party of this nation. While the Whig ing this famous debate, in Ottawa., 111., and Democratic parties differed in regard on Aug. 21, 1858, Mr. Douglas spoke as tc a bank, the tariff, distribution, the follows: specie circular, and the sub-treasury, they agreed on the great slavery question which Ladies and Gentlemen,—I appear before now agitates the Union. I say that the you to-day for the purpose of discussing Whig party and the Democratic party 141 DOTTGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD. STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS. agreed on the slavery question, while theydiffered on those matters of expediency towhich I have referred. The Whig partyand the Democratic party jointly adoptedthe compromise measures of 1850 as thebasis of a proper and just solution of theslavery question in all its forms. Claywas the great leader, with Webster onhis right and Caas on his left, and sus-tained by the patriots in the Whig andDemocratic ranks who had devised andenacted the compromise measures of1850. In 1851 the Whig party and the Demo-cratic party united in Illinois in adoptingresolutions endorsing and approving theprinciples of the compromise measuresof 1850 as the proper adjustment of thatquestion. In 1852, when the Whig partyassembled in convention at Baltimore forthe purpose of nominating a candidate for the Presidency, the first thing it did wasto declare the compromise meas
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