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Excerpt from The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Mr. Lincoln, on the other hand, always recognized the great ability of the senator, the majesty of his power and the fame he had achieved.
On the next evening, as has been said, Mr. Lincoln replied to Senator Douglas before a large audience, but of course there was no such spontaneous outpouring Of the people as that which welcomed the senator. It must be admitted that the Republicans had misgivings as to whether their champion was able to cope with the great senator.
Mr. Lincoln was in a cheerful mood. He began where Doug las left off by referring to the comparison Douglas made be tween his Own blows, in which he would be indifferent as to whether they would fall upon Republicans or their allies, as the Russians cared not whether their broadsides hit a Frenchman, an Englishman or a Turk. Just to think, of it, exclaimed Mr. Lincoln, right at the outset of the canvass, I, a poor, kind, amiable, intelligent gentleman, am to be slain ln this way!
I beg that he will indulge us while we barely suggest to him that those allies took Seb'astopol.
Mr. Lincoln then took up the matter Of popular sovereignty everlasting popular sovereignty, and argued that it was a delusion and a fraud. It was first called squatter sovereignty, which meant if anything that the squatters, the settlers, could, if they tried, keep slavery out of a territory, but that under the Dred Scott decision anybody could take slavery into a territory, yet, while a territory, all the rest of the people, all the squatters, could not drive it out, and argued from this that after all the squatters or settlers had no sovereignty at all.
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