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Despite the split that had broken in two his party, he proposed himself to the voters from a national perspective.

It 's significant that Douglas addressed his appeal especially to the south. Although many historians saw in this attitude only a desire to speak clearly to the secessionists, in fact he wanted to address the masses of the South, presenting them with a program that, unlike the Republican Party had nothing aggressive towards the south, but at the same time made them realize that the claim to the secession would lead to a bloody fight, which would have ended with the probable defeat of the South.

In speeches he uttered throughout the South, he always cited the name of Andrew Jackson, dear to the heart of the popular classes and at the same time a symbol of staunch Unionism.

On the question of the territories he was convinced that his theory of the sovereignty of these pioneers would have guaranteed the same to the free soilers of the Middle West without, at the same time, irritating and humiliating the Southerners with a drastic foreclosure, so that they could accept more readily the results of the industrial revolution.

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