Charles Duran - Or, The Career of a Bad Boy - By the author of "The Waldos",",31/15507.txt,841
15508,"Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics by Unknown
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[Footnote 580: Speech at Alton, Illinois, 1858.] [Footnote 581: Political Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, pp. 161 ff.] [Footnote 582: _Globe_, 35 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 22.] [Footnote 583: _Ibid._, App., p. 127. Toombs also stated that the submission clause had been put in his bill in the first place by accident, and that it had been stricken from the bill at his suggestion.] [Footnote 584: The submission of State constitutions to a popular vote had not then become a general practice.] [Footnote 585: Rhodes, History of the United States, II, p. 195.] [Footnote 586: _Globe_, 34 Cong., 1 Sess., App., p. 844.] [Footnote 587: _Globe_, 35 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 21.] [Footnote 588: Sheahan, Douglas, p. 443.] [Footnote 589: Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, p. 650.] [Footnote 590: MS. Letter, Douglas to Sheahan, October 6, 1856.] [Footnote 591: _Tribune Almanac_, 1857. The vote was as follows: |
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