On election day, the legislative candidates supporting Lincoln won four thousand more popular votes than the candidates supporting Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Stephen Douglas united other Democrats and members of the anti-slavery Republican Party to fight against the bill in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Douglas Bennett is the president of Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond,Indiana, that actively seeks foreign students.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Douglas argued that the compromise of eighteen fifty took the place of the earlier Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself are silent.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Douglas believed that, of the other candidates, Abraham Lincoln had the best chance of winning the presidential election.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Douglas said he agreed with every word of it except,he said, seventy-five thousand soldiers would not be enough.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But because of the way election areas had been organized, the Douglas Democrats won a majority of seats.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

The steamer Lady Elgin was carrying passengers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago to hear a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Stephen Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Douglas Laycock is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Douglas MacArthur began his service in the Army by traveling to several Asian countries including Japan,and to the Philippines, then an American territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In eighteen eighty-six, he was elected the lawman or sheriff of Douglas,Arizona, the town near his ranch.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

It was the same special motorcycle made by the Douglas Motor Works so many years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

A young farm boy could imagine himself as romantic hero Douglas Fairbanks or comedian Charlie Chaplin.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

In forming his cabinet, Buchanan did not ask for advice from Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

So Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had to depend on legislative support to get to Washington.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

He explained his plans and read to Douglas the declaration he would announce the next day.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So,Sunday evening, a Republican congressman visited the top Democrat of the North, Senator Stephen Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

In the nineteen-forties, Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote a book called, "The Everglades: River of Grass."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

In addition to size, Douglas Bennett says there are other important things to consider.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

They said Douglas was not honest in his statements about the eighteen fifty compromise.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Douglas MacArthur was born on an Army base near Little Rock,Arkansas in eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.07.02