The political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ADouglas in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois : together with certain preceding speeches of each at Chicago, Springfield, etc. . rri-tory want slavery, they will have it; and if they do Stephen A. Douglas 377 not want it, you cannot force it on them. And thisis the practical question, the great principle, uponwhich our institutions rest. I am willing to takethe decision of the Supreme Court as it was pro-nounced by that august tribunal, without stoppingto inquire whether I would have decided that way ornot. I have had many a d
The political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ADouglas in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois : together with certain preceding speeches of each at Chicago, Springfield, etc. . rri-tory want slavery, they will have it; and if they do Stephen A. Douglas 377 not want it, you cannot force it on them. And thisis the practical question, the great principle, uponwhich our institutions rest. I am willing to takethe decision of the Supreme Court as it was pro-nounced by that august tribunal, without stoppingto inquire whether I would have decided that way ornot. I have had many a decision made against meon questions of law which I did not like, but I wasbound by them just as much as if I had had a handin making them and approved them. Did you eversee a lawyer or a client lose his case that he approvedthe decision of the court? They always think thedecision unjust when it is given against them. Ina government of laws, like ours, we must sustain theConstitution as our fathers made it, and maintainthe rights of the States as they are guaranteed underthe Constitution; and then we will have peace andharmony between the different States and sectionsof this glorious Political Debates betwceu Abraham Lincoln Stephen Ai*h6ld Douglas From a^ahotograph by Handy oLthe original painting 5tepncn A. Dougja^ In the 1858 in Illinois ; including :- at Chicag Part II
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