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To: AlanD
The fact that that is your favorite quote about Douglas tells us a lot more about you then it does about him.

I think not. However, at the risk of reminding you of something you no doubt already know, Lincoln still beat Douglas by over 10 percentage points in the popular vote, Breckenridge by over 21 points and Bell by over 27?

89 posted on 05/23/2010 5:37:41 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Douglas was a shameless opportunist who re-opened a literal can of worms with his detested Kansas-Nebraska Act. He sold his soul for a railroad that would go through Chicago and tried to cut a deal that would make Kansas a Slave State.

I admire Douglas’ energetic campaigning in 1860 but little else. If I had been around during that period, I would have voted for John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party.

Another one of my heroes is John J. Crittenden of Tennessee . .who had two sons, one was a General in. the Union Army and the other was a General in Confederate Army.

Crittenden authored the heroic Crittenden Compromise that Seward supported and Lincoln quashed.


90 posted on 05/23/2010 5:48:47 PM PDT by AlanD
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