The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . any other crea-ture. Let us then turn this government back into thechannel in which the framers of the Constitutionoriginally placed it. Let us stand firmly by each we do not do so, we are tending in the contrarydirection that our friend Judge Douglas proposes—notintentionally—working in the traces that tend to makethis one universal slave nation. He is one that runsin that direction, and as such I resist him. My friends, I have detained you about as long as
The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . any other crea-ture. Let us then turn this government back into thechannel in which the framers of the Constitutionoriginally placed it. Let us stand firmly by each we do not do so, we are tending in the contrarydirection that our friend Judge Douglas proposes—notintentionally—working in the traces that tend to makethis one universal slave nation. He is one that runsin that direction, and as such I resist him. My friends, I have detained you about as long as Idesired to do, and I have only to say, let us discard allthis quibbling about this man and the other man, thisrace and that race and the other race being inferior,and therefore they must be placed in an inferior posi-tion. Let us discard all these things, and unite as onepeople throughout this land, until we shall once morestand up declaring that all men are created equal. Ileave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn inyour bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubtthat all men are created free and 2 I s !§ SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 77 SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JULY 17, 1858. [In this address, Mr. Lincoln discusses what is popularsovereignty ; Judge Douglass claim for credit in defeating theLecompton constitution; the Dred Scott decision; and concludesby presenting afresh his views on the subject of negro slavery,based upon the Declaration of Independence—that all men arecreated equal, in so far, at least, as they have a right to life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]. Fellow-citizens: Another election, which is deemedan important one, is approaching; and, as I suppose,the Republican party will without much difficulty electtheir State ticket. But in regard to the legislature, we,the Republicans, labor under some disadvantages. . .There is [one] disadvantage under which we labor, andto which I will ask your attention. It arises out of ther
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