 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1899 - 548 str.
...one doubted, least of all Douglas himself. Four years later he said to his autobiographer, Cutts : " I refer you to my speeches in the Senate for the whole...both houses. The speeches were nothing. It was the marshaling and directing of men and guarding from attacks and with a ceaseless vigilance preventing... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1899 - 488 str.
...one doubted, least of all Douglas himself. Four years later he said to his autobiographer, Cutts : " I refer you to my speeches in the Senate for the whole...authority and power of a dictator throughout the whole contro versy in both houses. The speeches were nothing. It was the marshaling and directing of men... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1902 - 164 str.
...supported the bill, and the Southerners played their part well. But Douglas afterwards said, and truly: " I passed the Kansas-Nebraska act myself. I had the...both houses. The speeches were nothing. It was the marshaling and directing of men and guarding from attacks and with ceaseless vigilance preventing surprise."... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1902 - 158 str.
...the bill, and the Southerners played their part well. But Douglas afterwards said, and truly : " 1 passed the Kansas-Nebraska act myself. I had the authority...both houses. The speeches were nothing. It was the marshaling and directing of men and guarding from attacks and with ceaseless vigilance preventing surprise."... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 576 str.
...at Springfield, 111., on October 23, 1849, and published in the Siate Register of November 8. 10. " I passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act myself. I had the...throughout the whole controversy, in both houses." — Douglas to Cutts, in Cutts, 122; Brown's Douglas, 90. 11. "The author of the bill was regarded... | |
 | 1924 - 770 str.
...than one-third. Douglas was proud of his work and did not hesitate to take full credit to himself: "I passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act myself. I had the...throughout the whole controversy, in both houses." Douglas really believed that he was solving the question in a democratic way, and that his law would... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - 1925 - 910 str.
...bill passed by a vote of a hundred thirteen to a hundred ten. Douglas told the truth when he asserted: "I passed the KansasNebraska Act myself. I had the...both houses. The speeches were nothing. It was the marshaling and directing of men, and guarding from attacks, and with a ceaseless vigilence preventing... | |
 | David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 str.
...authoritatively about civil matters. To his father-in-law, James Madison Cutts, Douglas reportedly said, "I passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act myself. I had the...throughout the whole controversy in both houses." But he seemed genuinely surprised by the mobs who attended his speeches on his trip back home; he could... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 str.
...hooting at almost every word. The truth is, I passed the Kansas-Nebraska bill myself. I had the authority of a dictator throughout the whole controversy in both houses. The speeches were nothing. What counted was the marshaling and directing of men, at which I had no equal in this Republic. Working... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 388 str.
...ballot was finally taken, and the bill squeaked through by 1 13 to 100 votes. Douglas later boasted: "I passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act myself. I had the...throughout the whole controversy in both houses." A more modest tone would have been better advised, for it was not at all clear what he had accomplished.... | |
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I passed the KansasNebraska Act myself. I had the authority and power of a dictator throughout the whole controversy in both houses. 
