Douglas, STEPHEN

ARNOLD, 1813-1861. Judge Ill. Supreme Court 1841-43; M. C. 1843-47; U. S. Senator from 1847; Presidential Candidate 1860. He was a warm supporter of the doctrine of "squatter sovereignty," by which each State was to say whether or not it would permit slavery within its limits. The support of this doctrine in the bill for the admi ion of Kansas and Nebraska caused widespread opposition and made the extension of slavery the paramount i ue in the country. Dougla , FREDERICK, 1817-1895. Most eminent of American negroes. He escaped from slavery in Md. 1838, gained fame as a public speaker, edited papers at Rochester and Washington, was U. S. Marshal Dist. Columbia 1877-81, and Minister to Haiti 1889-91. He pub. 3 vols. of autobiography, 1844, '55, '81.