WI: Stephen Douglas Lives Longer

The Copperheads--not a majority of the Democratic Party but powerful enough to block someone they really opposed--would have a hard time accepting him as a candidate. Unlike McClellan, Douglas would make clear *in advance* that he would not accept any platform calling for an armistice. McClellan has been much praised for repudiating the Chicago platform but he hesitated at first. https://books.google.com/books?id=vV7FBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA178
 
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