1851 STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS. Abraham Lincoln's Political Nemesis Defends Fugitive Slave Act Baptist He made important linguistic contributions

He made important linguistic contributions

apparently in the hand of Alexander M'Leod [McLeod]

A fine personal artifact apparently collected with great care by the noted abolitionist

also by Longman

Corners rubbed and bumped

1851 STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS. Abraham Lincoln's Political Nemesis Defends Fugitive Slave Act Baptist He made important linguistic contributionsA fascinating address by Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln's political nemesis, defending the Compromise of 1850. Together with Henry Clay and President Millard Fillmore, he drafted the compromise that temporarily quelled hostilities between slaveholding and non slaveholding states. The Compromise had embedded in it The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which became a key point of contention between its implementation and the beginning of the Civil War.