Abe's Pigeon
by David Hinds
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Title
Abe's Pigeon
Artist
David Hinds
Medium
Pastel - Pastel On Panel
Description
The premise for this piece is from the Sixth Lincoln - Douglas debate in Quincy, Illinois on October 13, 1858.
Abraham Lincoln was ridiculing Sen. Stephen Douglas's "Freeport doctrine" promise (aka "popular sovereignty") that, despite pro-slavery Federal judges and laws favored by Douglas's party, legislatures in new pre-Statehood "territories" could successfully ignore Federal demands to support slavery.
“He has at last invented this sort of do nothing Sovereignty—that the people may exclude slavery by a sort of ‘Sovereignty’ that is exercised by doing nothing at all. Is that not running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? 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?”
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?
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July 30th, 2019
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