Life of Stephen A Douglas . vedby men already resolved on a career of war was a romantic military excursionthrough the heart of Mexico. There were battlesbetween the triumphant invaders and the demoral-ized natives, which were believed entitled to rankamong the supreme achievements of genius andcourage. Americans had not yet acquired thatdeep knowledge of carnage, those stern conceptionsof war, which they were destined soon to glory and imperial conquest have rarelybeen so cheaply won. The war gave enduringfame to the commanding generals and shed a realluster over th
Life of Stephen A Douglas . vedby men already resolved on a career of war was a romantic military excursionthrough the heart of Mexico. There were battlesbetween the triumphant invaders and the demoral-ized natives, which were believed entitled to rankamong the supreme achievements of genius andcourage. Americans had not yet acquired thatdeep knowledge of carnage, those stern conceptionsof war, which they were destined soon to glory and imperial conquest have rarelybeen so cheaply won. The war gave enduringfame to the commanding generals and shed a realluster over the lives of thousands of men. 26 Life of Stephen A. Douglas. The material results were stupendous. Weacquired nearly twelve hundred thousand squaremiles of territory—a region one-third larger thanthe area of the United States at the close of theRevolution. The extravagant dream of makingthe Pacific the western boundary of the Republicwas realized and no one seriously doubted that thisvast domain was surrendered to iDantcl Webster Life of Stephen A. Douglas. 29 CHAPTER IV. The Compromise of 1850. Douglas served two terms in the House and wasagain elected in 1846, but in January following waschosen Senator, taking his seat on March 4th, April following he married Martha DennyMartin, daughter of a wealthy North Carolinaplanter and slave-owner. The Senate, during the early years of his service,was in its intellectual gifts altogether the mostextraordinary body ever assembled in the UnitedStates. Rarely, if ever, in the history of the world,have so many men of remarkable endowment, hightraining and masterful energy been gathered in asingle assembly. It was the period when the gen-eration of Webster, Clay and Calhoun overlappedthat of Seward, Chase and Sumner, when the menwho had sat at the feet of the RevolutionaryFathers and had striven to settle the interpretationof the Constitution met the men who were des-tined to guide the Nation through the Civil Warand sett
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