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Chase was more anti-slavery than most other Americans in 1860, but he switched parties so easily that it would be hard to call him a "Republican die-hard."

If Stephens spoke that strongly in private about the dangers of civil war, it would have been nice if he'd done so in public. Did he?

I tend to distrust these accounts of dire warnings. Someone may have had qualms at the time, a sense that things were going wrong, and in retrospect build that uneasiness up into thundering prophecies.

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Douglas’s passion for popular sovereignty reminds me a little of the abortion debate. The only party with no say in the decision is the affected person, in this case those who were or would be enslaved.

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Continued from May 7 (reply #7).

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