STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS THERE are many men who have played, if not a great, at least a conspicuous part in the history of this nation, who have been treated} if not unfairly} a.t least ungenerously both by contemporaries and later generations. Years ago I read with delight Theodore Parker's terrible sermon on Daniel Webster, and believed with the preacher that Webster, when he made his Seventh of March Speech, had "paltered with eternal God for power." Yet a few years later, Abraham Lincoln, as President, a man enshrined in the reverent affection of the American people, made the Webster policy his own when he declared that his object was to save the Union, and that he would save it even at the cost of continuing 'slavery. His devotion, like that of the great Massachusetts senator, was first of all to the Union. Stephen A. Douglas, a much less great man, has suff ered from the same extreme of contemporary 'Criticism. He too sought thTable of Contents CHAPTER; L EARLY...

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