...Dec. 1O, 1856, vol. II, p. 30Q. HOMEOPATHIC PIGEON SOUP 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? Rejoinder at Quincy Debate, Oct. 13, 1858, vol. IV, p. 380. WOOD SOAKED FOR Ox-Bows Like wood for ox-bows,...

...their midst." n This rare sophism, "as thin," to use a Lincolnian illustration, "as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," had nevertheless served Douglas's purpose with the Democrats of Illinois. But...

...that running his popular sovereignty down awfully T 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 1 But at last, when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there is not even that thin decoction...

...running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? [Laughter.] Has it not got down as thin as the homcepathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? [Roars of laughter and cheering.] But at last when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there...

...Dec. IO, 1856, vol. II, p. 309. HOMEOPATHIC PIGEON SOUP 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? Rejoinder at Quincy Debate, Oct. 13, 1858, vol. IV, p. 380. WOOD SOAKED FOR Ox- Bows Like wood for...

...Freeport Sophism This rare sophism, "as thin," to use a Lincolnian illustration, " as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," had nevertheless served Douglas's purpose with the Democrats of Illinois. But...

...Freeport Sophism This rare sophism, "as thin," to use a Lincolnian illustration, " as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," had nevertheless served Douglas's purpose with the Democrats of Illinois. But...

...the remark of Abraham Lincoln upon a windy speech: "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!" Henry Ward Beecher, during a speech on behalf of the North, at the time of the Rebellion, was interrupted...

...speech of Douglas in the famous Alton debate, which he said contained as "little substance as soap made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." Did not the school of a half-century past, crude and undeveloped though it was, meet the demands of...

...indirect nullification. As Lincoln put it, popular sovereignty "had got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." In a very close election, Douglas retained enough of his popularity to be reelected to the Senate,...