Excerpt from Speech of Hon.: Stephen a Douglas on the Measures of Adjustment The agitation on the subject of Slavery, now raging through the breadth of the land, presents a most extraordinary Spectacle. Con gress, after a protracted session of nearly ten months, succeeded in passing a system of measures, which are believed to be just to all parts of the Republic, and ought to be satisfactory to the People. The South has not triumphed over the North, nor has the North achieved a vie tory over the South. Neither party has made any humiliating con cessions to the other. Each has preserved its honor, while neither has surrendered an important right or sacrificed any substantial inter est. The measures composing the scheme of adjustment are believed to be in harmony with the principles of justice and the Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.