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The Cabal Murdered Senator Stephen Douglas * An Excerpt from Dixieland Deceived By Mike S King
THE STRANGE DEATH OF STEPHEN DOUGLAS
Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas, a Democrat, was Abraham Lincoln's political rival. Whereas Lincoln strongly opposed the expansion of slavery into the new territories (future states), Douglas argued that it should be left for the new states to decide whether they would join the Union as free states or slave states. Douglas narrowly defeated Lincoln in the contest for US Senator from Illinois (elected by State legislature) in 1858 but then lost to Lincoln in the US Presidential Election of 1860. Led by South Carolina, the election of Lincoln triggered the long-planned secession of seven southern states - before Lincoln had even been inaugurated. Four more states would join the Confederate rebellion after Lincoln's March 1861 inauguration. .At this time, many Democrats of the North -- led by Prussian-Jewish Rothschild agent and Democrat Party Chairman, August Belmont (born Aron Schonberg) remained in sympathy with the Democrat secessionists of the South. This was not the case for Douglas who, in spite of his past disagreements with Lincoln, was passionately pro-Union. As a symbolic gesture of unity, Douglas held Lincoln's famous "stove pipe" hat as the new president gave his inaugural address. Weeks later, in what came to be known as his ‘Wave the Flag” speech, the eloquent Senator delivered the most important address of his career before a joint session of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. In that speech, he referred to the secessionists as “pirates.” Some excerpts:.“The navigation of our great river into the Gulf of Mexico is obstructed. Hostile batteries have been planted upon its banks; custom houses have already been established; and we are required now to pay tribute and taxes, without having a voice in making the laws imposing them, or having a share in the proceeds after they have been collected. The question is whether this war of aggression shall proceed, and we remain with folded arms, inattentive spectators; or whether we shall meet the aggressors at the threshold and turn back the tide of revolution and usurpation.”.“So long as there was a hope of peaceful solution, I prayed and implored for compromise. I can appeal to my countrymen with confidence that I have spared no effort, omitted no opportunity, to secure a peaceful solution of all these troubles, and thus restore peace, happiness and fraternity to this country. When all propositions of peace fail, and a war of aggression is proclaimed, there is but one course left for the patriot, and that is to rally under that flag which has waved over the Capitol from the days of Washington.”.“I ask you to reflect, and then point out any one act that has been done — any one duty that has been omitted to be done — of which any one of these disunionists can justly complain. Yet we are told, simply because a certain political party has succeeded in a presidential election, they choose to consider that their liberties are not safe, and therefore they are justified in breaking up the government!.“Mv friends, I can say no more. To discuss these topics is the most painful duty of my life. It is with a sad heart — with a grief that I have never before experienced, that I have to contemplate this fearful struggle; but I believe in my conscience that it is a duty we owe ourselves and our children, and our God, to protect this Government and that flag from every assailant, be he who he may.”
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This type of full-throated public support for the Union, coming from the very top of the Northern Democratic hierarchy, was invaluable to Lincoln. Douglas, by influencing northern Democrats, was performing a huge unifying service in defense of the Union.
The Lincoln-Douglas slavery debates from the Senate race of 1858 set the stage for their "rematch" in the presidential election of 1860.
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1. As the nation split into two, the defeated Democrat Douglas closed ranks with Republican Lincoln and stood firmly in favor of suppressing the insurrection. // 2 & 3. At Lincoln's inauguration, Douglas (right corner) sat behind Lincoln and held his hat.
Suddenly, and without warning signs, Douglas was struck by illness in May 1861 and confined to bed in Chicago. It is said that he then contracted typhoid fever before dying. Evidently, the late Senator, only 48, must have bottled some of that “bad water” which had killed or sickened so many previous US presidents (Harrison, Polk, Taylor, Buchanan) and brought it with him from DC to Chicago!
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Because of precedent, motive, means and opportunity -- this event had all the indicators of an assassination. But establishment historians would never consider such a possibility. That would be a "conspiracy theory," dontch' know? Can't have that! The Cabal's motive for killing Douglas reveals itself in the immediate aftermath. The “unexpected” departure of Senator from the national stage was a huge loss for the Union. The Republican New York Times, in its eulogy article, correctly observed:
.“His death, at this time, may be regarded as a national calamity; -- for whatever his political faults, or his errors as a statesman may have been, (and we are among those who believe they were great), his peculiar relations and exalted position, his firm and manly support of the Union,would have made his name a tower of strength. His services in the Senate and his influence in favor of the right, can, in these perilous times, be illy spared by the nation.”
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In the aftermath of Douglas’s death, the mantle of Democratic Party leadership in the North passed into the hands of the pro-Confederate Rothschild Family –through the person of the DNC Chairman, the Jewish immigrant financier and enemy of Lincoln, August Belmont. How bloody convenient!
The sudden strange death of Douglas left Rothschild agent August Belmont (Schonberg) as the leading voice of the Northern Democrats. In that capacity, he would work to undermine Lincoln. The Rothschilds had an interest in splitting the Union into parts and then establishing a central bank in each.
The "Belmont Stakes" Horce Race is named after August Belmont.
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