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LG: That's why Stephen Douglas and Jefferson Davis made Senate cloakroom medicine that resulted in Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act with its doctrine of "popular sovereignty". Jeff Davis got "popular sovereignty" and the Little Giant got the railroad terminus in Omaha, due west of, and conveniently due west of, Chicago.

Ditto: OK. Lets do a little time-line thing here instead of time shifting.

Jefferson Davis serves as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce from 1853-1857. He was not in the Senate during those years.

The Kansas Nebraska Act passed in 1854.

The Trans Continental Railroad Act passed Congress in 1862 -- eight years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. At that point, Stephan A. Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) had been dead for nearly a year, and Jeff Davis was otherwise occupied in Richmond.

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A good example of how some folks use the mix and match approach to their historical commentary. Thanks for correcting the record.

[cowboyway]

A good example of how some folks use the mix and match approach to their historical commentary.

And maintaining that the War of Northern Aggression was about slavery is an example of how some folks use the affirmative action, politically correct revisionist approach for their historical commentary.

Thanks for correcting the record.

You're welcome.