circa 1850

Autograph document signed

Title: Legal document signed and engraving of Illinois Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC03142

circa 1850

Sartain, John (1808-1897)

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of Stephen Arnold Douglas]

Published by R.R. Landon, Chicago, Illinois. Engraving of Stephen A. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois.

GLC03142.02

28 December 1851

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emanuel Bernard Hart

Douglas writes to Hart, a United States Representative from New York: "A thousand thanks for your letter & for the efforts of our friends in the empire city. If I had a few such friends everywhere the battle would be soon won" (possibly referring to his attempt to become the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1852). Sends his regards to mutual acquaintances Sickles & Field (possibly other Democrats from New York).

GLC02975

9 July 1852

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852.

Supports Franklin Pierce as the Democratic presidential candidate. Gives a summary of Pierce's achievements and qualifications for the position of president: "Hence, as democrats, we invite the most rigid and strict scrutiny into the public and private character of Franklin Pierce and William R. King." Talks of why General Winfield Scott of the Whig party would not be a good candidate.

GLC00267.189

1854

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 30, 1854, on the Nebraska Territory.

Printed at the Sentinel Office. Disbound; original yellow cover visible on spine. "Is not the question involved the simple one, whether the people of the Territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery, subject only to the limitations of the Constitution? That is all the bill provides; and it does so in clear, explicit, and unequivocal terms."

GLC00267.379

1854

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)

Pamphlet

Title: The Nebraska question comprising speeches in the United States Senate by Mr. Douglas, Mr. Chase, Mr. Smith, Mr. Everett, Mr. Wade, Mr. Badger, Mr. Seward, and Mr. Sumner...

(title continues)... together with the history of the Missouri Compromise Daniel Webster's memorial in regard to it-- History of the annexation of Texas-- the organization of Oregon Territory-- and the Compromise of 1850. Published by Justus S. Redfield. Consists of speeches related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the debate preceding it, and the sectional crisis. Opens with a discussion of the Missouri Compromise followed by Daniel Webster's comments on the Compromise.

GLC05116.02

24 May 1854

Colfax, Schuyler (1823-1885)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Pitt Fessenden

Notes that he is not personally acquainted with Senator Fessenden, but they were both present at a previous National Convention. Hopes that instead of voting against the Clayton Amendment, Fessenden will allow it to pass, in hopes that its passage and effect will prove disastrous for the bill's supporters: "...it would drag down the Conspirators to a deeper degradation & a more decisive condemnation." Calls supporters of the bill "Douglasites," possibly a reference to Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Written on Register Office, South Bend stationery.

GLC01095

1856

Unknown

Pamphlet

Title: Read and reflect!

Pro-Democrat pamphlet attacking John Fremont. Lists fifteen charges against the Republican party led by Fremont. "Let every lover of his country remember that during the present Congress...the Republican (Fremont) party have voted to violate the most solemn treaties of the United States..." Includes official records to support the charges, namely a report on the territory of Kansas by Stephen Douglas. No date listed, but dated as 1856 from David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC. Lacks separate titlepage as issued.

GLC00267.200

[after 26 June 1857]

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

Broadsheet

Title: Speech of Hon. Abram Lincoln, in reply to Judge Douglas

Delivered in Representatives' Hall, Springfield, Illinois. Replies to Judge Stephen Douglas's speech two weeks earlier on the subject of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. Douglas had spoken in favor of the Dred Scott decision and Lincoln's response maintains that the decision was erroneous. This address would provide the logic (and language) Lincoln used again in many of the arguments in his famous "House Divided" speech a year later. Pages are uncut.

GLC02813

1858

Green, James Stephen (1817-1870)

Pamphlet

Title: [Senate report to accompany bill 161, including the Lecompton Constitution]

35th Congress, 1st session, Senate. Rep. Com. No. 82. Opens with a report submitted by Senator Green from the Committee on Territories. Includes a Constitution for Kansas, submitted by John Calhoun, President of the Kansas Constitutional Convention (this constitution is known as the Lecompton Constitution, intended to admit Kansas into the Union as a slave state).

GLC00267.169

23 January 1858

Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to D. J. Patterson

Discusses appointments and mentions helping a mutual friend, John H. Craff and that the appointment of a "John Hural (?) a route agent on the Va [and] E Tenn Rail Road amounts to nothing..." Writes that he is "inclined to think though [James Buchanan] has much more strength through the country than he has in Congress..." and that Buchanan "needs will and decision of character while he seems to have a good deal of it in conversation! but he is timed and hesitating in practice..." Assesses Stephen Douglas's future within the Democratic party.

GLC00324

1859

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)

Pamphlet

Title: Popular sovereignty in the territories. The dividing line between federal and local authority.

Published by Harper & Brothers. Douglas, a United States Senator from Illinois, concludes by stating: "...every distinct political Community, loyal to the Constitution and the Union, is entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of self-government in respect to their local concerns and internal polity, subject only to the Constitution of the United States."

GLC08700