Quotes by Stephen Douglas

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, What shall be done with the free negro?
– Stephen Douglas
The framers of the Constitution well understood that each locality, having separate and distinct interests, required separate and distinct laws, domestic institutions, and police regulations adapted to its own wants and its own condition; and they acted on the presumption, also, that these laws and institutions would be as diversified and as dissimilar as the States would be numerous.
– Stephen Douglas
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
– Stephen Douglas