Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man
It didn''t take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton''s warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to organize Nebraska.
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It didn''t take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton''s warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to organize Nebraska.
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