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Stephen A Douglas A Study in American Politics eBook Allen Johnson
Douglas was a great political leader before the Civil War. He is now usually remembered as a Lincoln foil, but; before his defeat in 1860 he was the top democrat in America. He was always out in front on the burning slavery issue and the opponents trained there fire on him. Gradually he was drawn down by the slavery issue during the 1850's. In the end his lifelong marginal health gave way and he died of chest ailments at an early age of 47 years. He was always a strong union fiirst man to the end.Product details
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Stephen A Douglas A Study in American Politics eBook Allen Johnson Reviews
A stunning work of scholarship. Johnson had to chose, was Douglas the evil sell out, who took part in selling out to slave expansion, while pretending to be for "popular sovereignty" or was he sincerely for "settling" the "difficult issue" of expansion of slavery.
Johnson chose badly. He was right, in that Douglas was either a scoundrel or a statements. There is no middle ground here, either Douglas was in league with Atchison and Davis, or he was not. Indeed,Douglas was. More than any other person, Douglas gave Atchison Davis, and Southern leaders profound hope they could push slavery by violence and trickery, when popular soverighty rejected slavery. Johnson doesnt even seem to grasp how profound slavery was rejected, despite Atchison Douglas and Davis enabling the killing sprees in Kansas.
Despite his amazing detail, Johnson leaves out the important ones. Douglas duplicity was something LIncoln knew well, as did Charles Sumner, as did Jeff Davis and David Rice Atchison. Douglas helped pass the Missouri Compromise as a "solemn pact" for an eternity, to settle the "question" and he insisted that no one would be devious enough to undo, then he and Atchison did indeed undo it. How Johnson missed that I don't know. WIshful thinking perhaps. Yes, Douglas did later deny he worked with Atchison, but it's clear he did very much work with him, and defended him, even after the killing sprees, as the "Most kind an patriotic man I ever met". Since Johnson simply dismisses Douglas as being close friends with Atchison and Davis, he isn't going to get much right at all.
Still, this book is one of the most thoroughly footnoted and details works on Douglas you will find. It proves how footnotes and facts don't really matter, if you avoid the facts. Johnson might check out Butler's speech about Douglas in 1860. And read Varina Davis discuss Jeff Davis "friendship" with Douglas. According to Varina, Douglas was a smelly man -- literally very stinky, and that was a source of much amusement between her and her husband.
Hilariously, Johnson seems deliberately obtuse about Douglas and his supposed indifference to Dred Scott decision. First Johnson tries to say Douglas was indifferent. Then in the next sentence, he has Douglas praising the decision, in typical Douglas bluster. Odd duck that paragraph. Indifferent, yet praises. Then Douglas insisted adamantly that Dred Scott was justification for the spread of slavery into Kansas, and painted LIncoln as some dangerous trouble maker, for even questioning the terms of Dred. Of course Johnson does not mention in his book that the Dred Scott decision said blacks are not human beings and ordered the federal government to protect slavery in the territories. Nor does Johnson mention that Atchison and Davis both relied on Dred Scott to justify their killing sprees in KS. . While there is no evidence Douglas was well aware, exactly, of what the decision would say in advance, , his machinations and odd equivocations on Kansas citizens ability to reject slavery, were explainable only if he knew that Taney and Davis would figure a case to make it effectively moot, what the voters in KS wanted. Douglas artfully was for popular sovereignty -- to the extent the court would allow it. Turns out, the court in DRED did not allow for popular soverighty, and in fact, de facto, allowed for Davis and Atchison's killing sprees.
Johnson also never gets into Douglas almost urging the crowds to violence, against Lincoln, calling LIncoln obsessed with equality for the "*igger" and claiming Lincoln wanted your daughters to sleep with "*iggers". Douglas rabid defense of Dred Scott ruling that blacks are not even human beings, but "so inferior" they are property, and not persons, is another small "detail" Johnson misses. If you have those two things wrong - Douglas subterfuge with Davis and Atchison, and Douglas pumping up the hate for Lincoln as much as he could, the scholarship is tarnished tinsel on a false tree.
Douglas was a great political leader before the Civil War. He is now usually remembered as a Lincoln foil, but; before his defeat in 1860 he was the top democrat in America. He was always out in front on the burning slavery issue and the opponents trained there fire on him. Gradually he was drawn down by the slavery issue during the 1850's. In the end his lifelong marginal health gave way and he died of chest ailments at an early age of 47 years. He was always a strong union fiirst man to the end.
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