During the 1858 Lincoln Douglas debates, Senator Douglas named three groups that opposed the Fugitive Slave Act. The first group opposed the act totally. They refused to comply with it. The second group opposed the act but recognized it as law. The third group opposed the act but recognized it was needed for the 1850 compromise.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas put forth the argument that if the Missouri Compromise of 1850 really was a compromise, it had to put forward a consistent principle. If it did not then it was not a compromise, but instead a modus vivendi arrangement. The main problem of this characterization is that Douglas was asking a rhetorical question. Douglas was the one to know inasmuch as he helped put it together.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas believed that the only way to democratically deal with the issue of slavery was by voting. This was called popular sovereignty and applied to his Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas defined the three groups of people who opposed the Fugitive Slave Act. These were:1. People who sought to subvert the law;2. People opposed to the law but believed it should be enforced as it was the law of the land;3. People who saw the law as part of the 1850 Missouri Compromise and agreed to it even though they opposed the law.
His debate partner was Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois. Douglas was a celebrated debater and speaker.
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas ran successfully as the senator from Illinois. He also ran as a Democrat in the 1860 presidential elections. He lost. Before the US Civil War ended, Douglas died.
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Stephen A. Douglas in 1854
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Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.