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Arguing Until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy (Micheal E. Woods - CH) gettysburg history At their bestby Micheal E. Woods As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture more