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Sentences starting with douglas

Douglas is managing the Bell element with great adroitness. [7]
Douglas must be sustained. [7]
Douglas introduced the Nebraska Bill in January. [7]
Douglas and I, for the first time this canvass, crossed swords here yesterday; the fire flew some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. [7]
Douglas says they cannot pay more, and I believe him. [7]

Sentences ending with douglas

I think there will be the most extraordinary effort ever made to carry New York for Douglas. [7]
When that charge was brought forward by the Chicago Times, the Springfield Register [Douglas's organ] reminded the Times that the charge really applied to John Henry; and I do know that John Henry is now making speeches and fiercely battling for Judge Douglas. [7]
It is precisely upon that part of the history of the country that one important omission is made by Judge Douglas. [7]
But it is true with Judge Douglas. [7]
I only propose to try to show you that you ought to nominate for the next Presidency, at Charleston, my distinguished friend Judge Douglas. [7]
I give way to Judge Douglas. [7]
We held; but the rope broke midway between Taugwalder and Lord Francis Douglas. [5]
In both cases the object has been, I think, the same as the Hunt movement in New York--to throw States to Douglas. [7]
I wish to say something now in regard to the Dred Scott decision, as dealt with by Judge Douglas. [7]
He gives other quotations,--another from Judge Douglas. [7]

Short sentences using douglas

Did Judge Douglas invent this? [7]
Go on, Judge Douglas. [7]
Judge Douglas knows. [7]
Judge Douglas says "by Congress! [7]

Sentences containing douglas two or more times

In 1850 a very clever gentleman by the name of Thompson Campbell, a personal friend of Judge Douglas and myself, a political friend of Judge Douglas and opponent of mine, was a candidate for Congress in the Galena District. [7]
I insist that this is the difference between Judge Douglas and myself,--that Judge Douglas is helping that change along. [7]
He did not say that Douglas was among them, but we prove by another source that about the same time Douglas comes into the Senate with that provision stricken out of the bill. [7]
This must be borne in mind, as also the additional fact that Judge Douglas is a man of vast influence, so great that it is enough for many men to profess to believe anything when they once find out Judge Douglas professes to believe it. [7]
There is not a public man in the United States, I believe, with the exception of Senator Douglas, who has not, at some time in his life, declared his opinion whether the thing is right or wrong; but Senator Douglas never declares it is wrong. [7]
He said that a friend of our Senator Douglas had been talking to him, and had, among other things, said to him: "...why, you don't want to beat Douglas? [7]

More example sentences with the word douglas in them

Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
At all events, you ought to thank Judge Douglas for it; it is for your benefit it is made. [7]
Even here to-day you heard Judge Douglas quarrel with me because I uttered a wish that it might sometime come to an end. [7]
But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850. [7]
I think you would conclude that it was, if your liberty depended upon it, and so would Judge Douglas, if his liberty depended upon it. [7]
Judge Douglas has worked it all out. [9]
Now a few words in regard to these extracts from speeches of mine which Judge Douglas has read to you, and which he supposes are in very great contrast to each other. [7]
Judge Douglas voted with the Republicans upon that matter of fact. [7]
Now, Douglas is wiser than you, for your own benefit, upon that subject. [7]
Had he been wise in deciding before he had taught a glimpse of the accomplished Douglas, whose name end fame filled the land? [9]
But Judge Douglas will have it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary circumstances, and give their vote in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it, and obey it in every possible sense. [7]
I'll tell you why I'm in this campaign: to catch Douglas now, and keep him out of the White House in 1860. [9]
But, Judge Douglas, why didn't you tell the truth? [7]
But Mr. Douglas, who had arrived the evening before to the booming of two and thirty guns, had his banners end his bunting, too. [9]
There are those who denounce us openly to their friends, and yet whisper to us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object. [7]
In this paragraph, which I have quoted in your hearing, and to which I ask the attention of all, Judge Douglas thinks he discovers great political heresy. [7]
I said that when Judge Douglas was speaking at place--where I spoke on the succeeding day he used very harsh language about this charge. [7]
Let us inquire what Judge Douglas really invented when he introduced the Nebraska Bill? [7]
Now, I ask, what is the reason Judge Douglas is so chary about coming to the exact question? [7]
This being so, what is Judge Douglas going to spend his life for? [7]
Harris and Douglas were both in Springfield when the Convention was in session, and although they both left before the fraud appeared in the Register, subsequent events show that they have both had their eyes fixed upon that Convention. [7]
Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday; that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. [7]
In our State, we know the thing is engineered by Douglas men, and we do not believe they can make a great deal out of it. [7]
He says it was known that the bill was silent in this particular; but I say, Judge Douglas, it was not silent when you got it. [7]
And yet I was for the Omnibus Bill, and I am with Mr. Douglas in his local sovereignty. [9]
Indeed, when it was assailed because it did not contain such repeal, Judge Douglas defended it in its existing form. [7]
Then, if Douglas wants to contradict Trumbull and call him a liar, let him say he did not put it in, and not that he did n't take it out again. [7]
This is the view I entertain, and this is the reason why I entertained it, as Judge Douglas has read from my Springfield speech. [7]
While I am upon this subject, I will make some answers briefly to certain propositions that Judge Douglas has put. [7]
I have stated upon former occasions, and I may as well state again, what I understand to be the real issue in this controversy between Judge Douglas and myself. [7]
I have said, upon a former occasion, and I repeat it now, that the course of arguement that Judge Douglas makes use of upon this subject (I charge not his motives in this), is preparing the public mind for that new Dred Scott decision. [7]
It is not unpatriotic to hold that opinion if a man is a Douglas man. [7]
Judge Douglas made two points upon my recent speech at Springfield. [7]
I presume the truth is that Douglas put it in, and afterward took it out. [7]
The question that Trumbull has made is that Judge Douglas put it in; and he don't meet Trumbull at all unless he denies that. [7]
I now proceed to try to show you that Douglas is as sincerely for you and more wisely for you than you are for yourselves. [7]
Opinions here, as to the prospect of Douglas being nominated, are quite conflicting--some very confident he will, and others that he will not be. [7]
If I wanted to take Dred Scott from his master, I would be interfering with property, and that terrible difficulty that Judge Douglas speaks of, of interfering with property, would arise. [7]
I am trying to show that you, Judge Douglas, are a witness on my side. [7]
Judge Douglas labors to show that it is one thing, while I think it is altogether different. [7]
Judge Douglas ought to remember, when he is endeavoring to force this policy upon the American people, that while he is put up in that way, a good many are not. [7]
And you ought to remember how long, by precedent, Judge Douglas holds himself obliged to stick by compromises. [7]
We will try to put it where Judge Douglas would not object, for he says he will obey it until it is reversed. [7]
Judge Douglas ought to know how. [7]
I pointed out to Judge Douglas that in his Freeport speech he had promised to investigate that matter. [7]
I don't want to have a fight with Judge Douglas, and I have no way of making an argument up into the consistency of a corn-cob and stopping his mouth with it. [7]
If it prove to be true, as is probable, that the people of Utah are in open rebellion to the United States, then Judge Douglas is in favor of repealing their territorial organization, and attaching them to the adjoining States for judicial purposes. [7]
When I went through with each and every piece, Judge Douglas did not dare then to say that any piece of it was a forgery. [7]
This charge, in this form, was made by Judge Douglas on, I believe, the 9th of July, 1858, in Chicago, in my hearing. [7]
So far in this controversy I can get no answer at all from Judge Douglas upon these subjects. [7]
This is the third time that Judge Douglas has assumed that he learned about these resolutions by Harris's attempting to use them against Norton on the floor of Congress. [7]
In this I think I argue fairly (without questioning motives at all) that Judge Douglas is most ingeniously and powerfully preparing the public mind to take that decision when it comes; and not only so, but he is doing it in various other ways. [7]
As introductory to these interrogatories which Judge Douglas propounded to me at Ottawa, he read a set of resolutions which he said Judge Trumbull and myself had participated in adopting, in the first Republican State Convention, held at Springfield in October, 1854. [7]
But last year there was not a Douglas popular sovereign in Illinois who did not say it. [7]
This does constitute their platform, and it is because Judge Douglas claims it is his platform--that these are his principles and purposes--that he has a right to declare he speaks his sentiments "frankly and manfully. [7]
The Democrats of the young Northwest stood for Douglas and Johnson, and the solid South, in another hall, nominated Breckenridge and Lane. [9]
Whatever may be the result of this ephemeral contest between Judge Douglas and myself, I see the day rapidly approaching when his pill of sectionalism, which he has been thrusting down the throats of Republicans for years past, will be crowded down his own throat. [7]
Judge Douglas had the privilege of replying to me at Galesburgh, and again he gave me no direct answer as to whether he would or would not sustain such a decision if made. [7]
I recollect in the Presidential election which followed, when we had General Scott up for the presidency, Judge Douglas was around berating us Whigs as Abolitionists, precisely as he does to-day,--not a bit of difference. [7]
Yet this is the policy here in the North that Douglas is advocating, that we are to care nothing about it! [7]
The truth about the matter is this: Judge Douglas has sung paeans to his "Popular Sovereignty" doctrine until his Supreme Court, co-operating with him, has squatted his Squatter Sovereignty out. [7]
Lanphier is doing the Judge good service, and Douglas desires his word to be taken for the truth. [7]
I think, then, the fact that Judge Trumbull offered no amendment does not throw much blame upon him; and if it did, it does not reach the question of fact as to what Judge Douglas was doing. [7]
With respect to the evidence bearing upon that question of fact, I readily agree that Judge Douglas and the Republicans had the right on their side, and that the Administration was wrong. [7]
She was, like the Douglas, "tender and true. [4]
The difference between the Buchanan men on the one hand, and the Douglas men and the Republicans on the other, has not been on a question of principle, but on a question of fact. [7]
I don't think that you can discover that Douglas ever talked of going to Virginia to "squelch" out that idea there. [7]
Judge Douglas assumes that we have no interest in them,--that we have no right whatever to interfere. [7]
It is possible that this is not true, but Judge Douglas knows it is asserted to be true in letters, newspapers, and public speeches, and borne by every mail and blown by every breeze to the eyes and ears of the world. [7]
So it seems that there are some things that Judge Douglas dares to do, and some that he dares not to do. [7]
Then he remembered that the Widow Douglas had been kind to him more than once, and maybe these men were going to murder her. [5]
It is true that the set of resolutions read by Judge Douglas were published in the Illinois State Register on the 16th of October, 1854, as being the resolutions of an anti-Nebraska Convention which had sat in that same month of October, at Springfield. [7]
Lanphier perhaps insists that the rule of honor among thieves does not quite require him to take all upon himself, and consequently my friend Judge Douglas finds it difficult to make a satisfactory report upon his investigation. [7]
The next proposition that Judge Douglas puts is this: "But upon examination it turns out that the Toombs bill never did contain a clause requiring the constitution to be submitted. [7]
Does Douglas say that is a forgery? [7]
It so happens that in that "popular sovereignty" with which Mr. Clay was identified, the Missouri Compromise was expressly reversed; and it was a little singular if Mr. Clay cast his mantle upon Judge Douglas on purpose to have that compromise repealed. [7]
But Douglas says that he is unalterably opposed to the repeal of those laws because, in his view, it is a compromise of the Constitution. [7]
If, in arraying that evidence I had stated anything which was false or erroneous, it needed but that Judge Douglas should point it out, and I would have taken it back, with all the kindness in the world. [7]
Why, I believe that everything Judge Trumbull had proposed, particularly in connection with this question of Kansas and Nebraska, since he had been on the floor of the Senate, had been promptly voted down by Judge Douglas and his friends. [7]
Why, I understood that at one time the people of Chicago would not let Judge Douglas preach a certain favorite doctrine of his. [7]
It turned out that although a few men calling themselves an anti-Nebraska State Convention had sat at Springfield about that time, yet neither did I take any part in it, nor did it pass the resolutions or any such resolutions as Judge Douglas read. [7]
But Judge Douglas tells the people what my objection was when I did not tell them myself. [7]
But there is still a difference, I think, between Judge Douglas and the Republicans in this. [7]
The Widow Douglas stayed by to see that he obeyed. [5]
And now I state it as a fact, to be taken back if there is any mistake about it, that Judge Douglas and those acting with him voted that amendment down. [7]
I heard one startled exclamation from Croz, then saw him and Mr. Hadow flying downward; in another moment Hudson was dragged from his steps, and Lord Douglas immediately after him. [5]
I wish to stand erect before the country, as well as Judge Douglas, on this question of judicial authority; and therefore I add something to the authority in favor of my own position. [7]
Judge Douglas cannot show that either of us ever did have anything to do with them. [7]
And if I should never be elected to any office, I trust I may go down with no stain of falsehood upon my reputation, notwithstanding the hard opinions Judge Douglas chooses to entertain of me. [7]
It is now several minutes past five, and Judge Douglas has spoken over three hours. [7]
The Welshman admitted several ladies and gentlemen, among them the Widow Douglas, and noticed that groups of citizens were climbing up the hill--to stare at the stile. [5]
This is the seventh time Judge Douglas and myself have met in these joint discussions, and he has been gradually improving in regard to his war with the Administration. [7]
The copies I send you are as reported and printed by the respective friends of Senator Douglas and myself, at the time--that is, his by his friends, and mine by mine. [7]
For Mr. Douglas, Senator and Judge, was a national character, mighty in politics, invulnerable in the armor of his oratory. [9]
Senator Douglas sometimes says the Missouri line itself was in principle only an extension of the line of the Ordinance of '87--that is to say, an extension of the Ohio River. [7]
But Judge Douglas says that he himself moved to strike out that last provision of the bill, and that on his motion it was stricken out and a substitute inserted. [7]
Does Judge Douglas say this is a forgery? [7]
Does Judge Douglas say that is a forgery? [7]
I never did say that I defy Judge Douglas to show that I ever said so, for I never uttered it. [7]
Does Judge Douglas say it is a forgery, and was not true? [7]

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