Stephen Douglas (Stephen Arnold Douglas) Quotes

Abolitionism proposes to destroy the right and extinguish the principle of self-government for which our forefathers waged a seven years' bloody war, and upon which our system of free government is founded.

Stephen Douglas

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• Government
• Self
• Abolition

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• Abolitionism proposes to destroy the right and extinguish the principle of self-government for which our forefathers waged a seven years' bloody war, and upon which our system of free government is founded.

  

  Stephen Douglas
  • Free
  • Government
  • Self