Une histoire américaine . la capacité du peuple d'une localité à gérer ses propres affaires, a été notoirement honnête en préférant le prin-ciple de la souveraineté populaire de 1850 au principe De Compromis Missouri de 1820.Sa position était beaucoup comme celle de Daniel Webster dans le discours du 27 mars quatre ans plus tôt (p. 360). 1 Ces hommes étaient le président Pierce, qui était presque servilement à la suite des conseils de son secrétaire de guerre, Jefferson Davis; le secrétaire d'État Marcy, a plaidé pour l'annexion de Cuba; et notre ministre de l'Angleterre, Buch^an, qui a signé le manifeste d'Ostende. Approche du Cr

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An American history . the ability ofthe people of a locality to manage their own affairs, was notperfectly honest in preferring the popular-sovereignty prin-ciple of 1850 to the Missouri-Compromise principle of 1820.His position was much like that of Daniel Webster in theseventh of March speech four years earlier (p. 360). 1 These men were President Pierce, who was almost slavishly following theguidance of his Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis; Secretary of State Marcy, whoadvocated the annexation of Cuba; and our Minister to England, Buch^an, who signed the Ostend Manifesto. Approaching the Crisis 583 In the debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill Douglas proved 558. The himself the master of all his opponents. Alone he faced the Nebraska fire of Wade, Chase, . Seward, Sumner, and Everett, — all mas- ^f, ^l a law, March terly speakers, — meeting their attacks at every point with a 30, 1854vigor and tact which won even from his adversaries expressionsof admiration. On March 2, 1854, after a continuous session. Free SratesSlave States Our Western Territories, 1854 of thirty-seven hours, which . he closed with a speech lasting-from midnight to dawn, Douglas carried the bill through theSenate by a vote of 3 7 to 14. It passed the House a few dayslater by the close vote of 113 to 100, and was signed by Pierce.Thus the Missouri Compromise, for thirty-four years canonizedin the hearts of the American people, was repealed, and485, 000 square miles of territory that had been foreverdedicated to freedom were opened to the slaveholder. 384 The Crisis of Disunion Mr. James Ford Rhodes, the foremost historian of thisperiod, says that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the mostmomentous measure that passed Congress from the day theSenators and Representatives first met until the outbreak of theCivil War. * It was the end of compromise on the slaveryquestion. It was the declaration on the part of the South thatno more lines of latitude or acts of Congress could debarslavery from the territor

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