On the concept of 'popular sovereignty' or 'do nothing sovereignty':
Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
Speech at Quincy, Illinois, 12 October 1858
Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
Speech at Quincy, Illinois, 12 October 1858