Synonyms:
Douglas, Stephen_A._Douglas, Stephen_Arnold_Douglas, Little_Giant
Meaning: United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
Usage examples
Douglas Haig born. 1880.
October, debated with Douglas.
Douglas has not been here since you left.
Douglas Dale could not attend that inquest.
Nevertheless the little Douglas Squirrel can open them.
1858--Lost in the legislature the senatorship to Douglas.
"Well, then, say what you think of her now," cried Douglas impatiently.
The prompt action of Douglas, however, had the effect of keeping the mining movement in hand.
But in the heart of Douglas Dale there is an empty place which can never be filled upon earth.
He was a candidate again in 1838, and was elected over so agile an adversary as Stephen Arnold Douglas.