. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 . eers.]So it was, and so it is with the great Democratic party, which, from thedays of Jefferson until this period, has proven itself to be the historicparty of this nation. While the Whig and Democratic partiesdiffered in regard to a bank, the tariff, distribution, the specie circular, iThe speeches in this debate have been reprinted from the Follett, Foster & C!o. edition of 1860,and all the interruptions, omitted in that edition, have been added from the newspaper reports, thosein Douglas speeches from the official Democratic report in the Chicago Time
. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 . eers.]So it was, and so it is with the great Democratic party, which, from thedays of Jefferson until this period, has proven itself to be the historicparty of this nation. While the Whig and Democratic partiesdiffered in regard to a bank, the tariff, distribution, the specie circular, iThe speeches in this debate have been reprinted from the Follett, Foster & C!o. edition of 1860,and all the interruptions, omitted in that edition, have been added from the newspaper reports, thosein Douglas speeches from the official Democratic report in the Chicago Times, and those in Lincolnsspeeches from the official Republican report in the Chicago Press and Tribune. All variants in thetext (except those of capitalization and punctuation) from these official reports have been noticed inthe footnotes. From an examination of these, it will be seen that Lincoln did not make any impor-tant changes in his speeches, and that the editors were very fair in their reprint of the speeches of DOUGLAS AT OTTAWA 87 and the sub-treasury, they agreed on the great slavery questionwhich now agitates the Union. I say that the Whig party and theDemocratic party agreed on this slavery question, while they differedon those matters of expediency to which I have referred. TheWhig party and the Democratic party jointly adopted the Com-promise measures of 1850 as the basis of a proper and just solutionof this slavery question in all its forms. Clay was the great leader,with Webster on his right and Cass on his left, and sustained by thepatriots in the Whig and Democratic ranks who had devised andenacted the Compromise measures of 1850. In 1851 the Whig party and the Democratic party united in Illinoisin adopting resolutions indorsing J- and approving the principles of theCompromise measures of 1850, as the proper adjustment of that ques-tion. In 1852, when the Whig party assembled in Convention atBaltimore for the purpose of nominating a candidate for
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