The speech in which it was announced made frequent reference to an article published on December 17 in the Washington Union; the speaker noted that his response to that article was rebuked by Mr. Toombs.
The speech in which it was announced made frequent reference to an article published on December 17 in the Washington Union; the speaker noted that his response to that article was rebuked by Mr. Toombs. That speech also referred to a letter written by the speaker to Charles Lanphier of the State Register, in which he tried to ascertain the truth about a claim made by Major Thomas Harris. It was an attempt to compromise between an act of legislation passed four years earlier and a Supreme Court decision of the previous year, and proved to be a Pyrrhic victory, inasmuch as its creator won the election for which he was campaigning at the time but lost a more important election two years later. FTP, name this statement made on August 27, 1858 at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Stephen Douglas suggested that slavery could be outlawed by a territory.
The speech in which it was announced made frequent reference to an article published on December 17 in the Washington Union; the speaker noted that his response to that article was rebuked by Mr. Toombs.
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