Douglas claimed that in his New Salem days Lincoln “could ruin more liquor than all the boys of the town together” – a charge that was not merely inaccurate but singularly inappropriate from a senator known to have a fondness for drink – and Lincoln jeered that Douglas’s popular-sovereignty doctrine was “as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.
-David Herbert Donald
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