id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27579 Brown, William Garrott Stephen Arnold Douglas .txt text/plain 25194 1085 66 divided on his course, when Douglas opened his law office and began to Douglas, many years later, declared that he was drawn to Lincoln From this time, Douglas and Lincoln knew each other well, for they lived among the Democrats, and Douglas took strong ground in favor of United States senator for the six years beginning March 4, 1847. maintained that only such territory as is set apart to form new States But the questions, apart from that of slavery, on which Douglas's course race question; Douglas's generation thought of it merely as the slavery great parties in the North, who believed slavery wrong but felt to slavery in the Territories and in States to be formed out of them those Western plains whither Douglas declared that the slavery question such a state constitution as they might prefer, and Douglas adopted it Lincoln had entered the House as Douglas left it for the Senate, but at ./cache/27579.txt ./txt/27579.txt