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the adoption of Douglas's platform brought about the withdrawal from the
convention of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida,
Texas and Arkansas. The convention adjourned to Baltimore, where the
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland delegations
left it, and where Douglas was nominated for the presidency by the
Northern Democrats; he campaigned vigorously but hopelessly, boldly
attacking disunion, and in the election, though he received a popular
vote of 1,376,957, he received an electoral vote of only 12--Lincoln
receiving 180. Douglas urged the South to acquiesce in Lincoln's
election. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he denounced secession as
criminal, and was one of the strongest advocates of maintaining the
integrity of the Union at all hazards. At Lincoln's request he undertook
a mission to the border states and the North-west to rouse the spirit of
Unionism; he spoke in West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois. He died on the
3rd of June 1861 at Chicago, where he was buried on the shore of Lake
Michigan; the site was afterwards bought by the state, and an imposing
monument with a statue by Leonard Volk now stands over his grave.

In person Douglas was conspicuously small, being hardly five feet in
height, but his large head and massive chest and shoulders gave him the
popular sobriquet "The Little Giant." His voice was strong and carried
far, he had little grace of delivery, and his gestures were often
violent. As a resourceful political leader, and an adroit, ready,
skilful tactician in debate, he has had few equals in American history.

See Allen Johnson's _Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics_
(New York, 1908), W. G. Brown's _Stephen Arnold Douglas_ (Boston,
1902), and an excellent review of his later life in James Ford
Rhodes's _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850_
(New York, 1893-1906); also P. O. Ray, _Repeal of the Missouri
Compromise_ (Cleveland, Ohio, 1909), and E. C. Carr, _Stephen A.
Douglas_ (Chicago, 1909).

FOOTNOTE:

[1] Her death in 1853 was a great blow to him and embittered him. in
November 1856 he married Adele Cutts, a Maryland belle, a grandniece
of Dolly Madison, and a Roman Catholic, who became the leader of
Washington society, especially in the winter of 1857-1858, when
Douglas was in revolt against Buchanan.

DOUGLAS, the capital of the Isle of Man, a municipal borough and