Stephen Douglas Statue TO Be Removed ?

[David Lockmiller]

(09-21-2020 06:46 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Not surprised, hope they leave the one in Springfield's Old Capitol Building

http://westkentuckystar.com/News/State/I...pitol.aspx

Without Stephen Douglas, there would have been no President Abraham Lincoln. It was Senator Douglas who orchestrated the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in exchange for the South’s support in fulfilling his personal ambition to be President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was out of politics until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which acted as the bar on expansion of slavery in the United States. It was Lincoln’s run for the Illinois Senate seat against Douglas and the Lincoln-Douglas debates that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure on the issue of slavery. And, it was the subsequent division of the Democratic Party that permitted Abraham Lincoln to become President of the United States and also yielded the Republican Party in control of both Houses of Congress.

Thus, if there had been no Senator Stephen Douglas there would have come to be no President Abraham Lincoln leading the nation in this time of ultimate crisis for the Union. There would have been no longer a Union of the United States of America. Defeated in the election for President, Senator Douglas supported President Lincoln and did all he could do to preserve the Union until his death early in the Civil War.

We the People have experienced in previous national crises the Civil War itself, the Depression and World War II as a Union of States. President Lincoln described to John Hay this first major crisis in this national unity of States with these words as quoted from Team of Rivals at page 356: "I consider the central idea pervading this struggle," he told Hay in early May [1861], "is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves."