American patriots and statesmen : from Washington to Lincoln . more profitable; and a desire to annex Cuba,Central America, or Mexico, as slaveholding ter-ritory. A new issue was raised by Douglass*theory of popular sovereignty, or squatter sov-ereignty, by which any master might take aslave to any territory and the people of the terri-tory should decide whether he might stay most spectacular feature of this discussionwas the joint debate between Abraham Lincolnand Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, in which Lin-coln applied the principles of the Declaration ofIndependence to the negro as z
American patriots and statesmen : from Washington to Lincoln . more profitable; and a desire to annex Cuba,Central America, or Mexico, as slaveholding ter-ritory. A new issue was raised by Douglass*theory of popular sovereignty, or squatter sov-ereignty, by which any master might take aslave to any territory and the people of the terri-tory should decide whether he might stay most spectacular feature of this discussionwas the joint debate between Abraham Lincolnand Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, in which Lin-coln applied the principles of the Declaration ofIndependence to the negro as zvell as to the whiteman. He also took up the cause of labor againstthe theory that bondage was its normal most aggressive method of attacking slaverywas shown by John Brown in his attempt £01raise a slave insurrection in Harpers Ferry. Thegeneral effect of these three years was to clarifythe political atmosphere by bringing clearly be-fore the minds of the whole American peoplethat, as Lincoln put it, a house divided againstitself cannot stand. From a particularly characteristic daguerreotype, i. Shall Part of Mexico BeAnnexed? (1857) By Frederick Law Olmsted A Northern farmer who visited the Southwest as anewspaper correspondent. Afterward a distinguishedlandscape gardener. There is a general opinion that portions ofMexico, adjoining Texas, are, sooner or later,destined to be annexed to the Union, to addto the number and power of the Slave examination of the character of the countryin question serves to materially diminish anysuch probabilities. If a line be drawn from themouth of the Rio Grande, due west (along thetwenty-sixth parallel) to the Pacific, the remain-ing territory of Mexico will be divided nearlyequally; but, in the northern half, though finepastures and valuable mines might be acquired,no cotton lands are to be found. The onlyexceptions, of consequence, are those describednear the present boundary, and a few sunnyvalleys along the short,
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