Great debates in American history : from the debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . histry of the advocate of this violation, thevery sight of one toward whom he had been on principlean inveterate antagonist and whom he believed with allhis heart to be the prince of demagogues,^ caused him tothrow to the winds all selfish personal considerationsand, in default of an available statesman of Douglassrank, to enter the lists himself against the redoubtableLittle Giant as the champion o
Great debates in American history : from the debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . histry of the advocate of this violation, thevery sight of one toward whom he had been on principlean inveterate antagonist and whom he believed with allhis heart to be the prince of demagogues,^ caused him tothrow to the winds all selfish personal considerationsand, in default of an available statesman of Douglassrank, to enter the lists himself against the redoubtableLittle Giant as the champion of national faith andhuman freedom. On the day appointed Lincoln spoke for three hours, Lincolns mantle of * charity for all was not wide enough to coverthe Little Giant in the ante-bellum days. Later Lincoln learned that hehad misjudged his fellow statesman. This was at the testing of souls in thespring of 1S61, when Douglas came to the sorely troubled President andoffered his whole-hearted sersdces to the Union cause—an earnest of whichhe gave soon after in a speech at Chicago, which was the most eloquent ofhis career as well as his last, since he died a few weeks after delivering it. W:. YOUNG AMERICA President Pierce, supported by jingo Democratic statesincuFrom Ihe collection of the Neto York Hislorical Society 313 314 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES delivering a terrible philippic against the Nebraska himself declared that he had heard nothing likeit in the Senate. Unfortunately for the archives ofAmerican oratory the speech was not reported. How-ever, its argument has been preserved, and undoubtedlyin more finished form, in a speech of the same tenorwhich Lincoln delivered at Peoria two weeks later (Oc-tober 16) and in the joint debate with Douglas in 1858[see Vol. V, chapter III]. CHAPTER Vin**Bleeding Kansas [debates on the admission of KANSAS INTO THE UNION] Foundation of the Republican Party: Its Success in the Elections of 1854—President Pierce Sends Special
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