Stephen Douglas
Not the North, not the South, the state will choose its fate
Northern Democrat dedicated to preventing Southern secession and spreading the idea of popular sovereignty
" I look forward to a time when each State shall be allowed to do as it pleases...I care more for the great principle of self-government, the right of the people to rule, than I do for all the negroes in Christendom"
Sponsored by Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Former Governor of Georgia