Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . that among these arelife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to securethese rights, governments are instituted among men, de-riving their just powers from the consent of the govern-ed. There is the origin of Popular Sovereignty. [Loud applause.] Who, then, shall come in at this day and say that heinvented it? [After referring, in appropriate terms, to the creditclaimed by Douglas for defeating the Lecompton policy,Mr. Lincoln proceeds.] I d
Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . that among these arelife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to securethese rights, governments are instituted among men, de-riving their just powers from the consent of the govern-ed. There is the origin of Popular Sovereignty. [Loud applause.] Who, then, shall come in at this day and say that heinvented it? [After referring, in appropriate terms, to the creditclaimed by Douglas for defeating the Lecompton policy,Mr. Lincoln proceeds.] I defy you to show a printed resolution passed in aDemocratic meeting—I take it upon myself to defy anyman to show a printed resolution of a Democratic meet-ing, large or small, in favor of Judge Trumbull, or any DEBATE WITH DOUGLAS. 369 of the five to one Republicans who beat that bill. Every-thing must be for the Democrats. They did everything, and the five to the one that reallydid the thing, they snub over, and they do not seem toremember that they have an existence upon the face ofthe earth. A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT THE OLD AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM WHICH FELL. Gentlemen, I fear that I shall become tedious. I leavethis branch of the subject to take hold of another. I takeup that part of Judge Douglas speech in which he respect-fully attended to me. Judge Douglas made two points upon my recent speech 3/o Lincolns siories and speeches. at Springfield. He says they are to be the issues of thiscampaign. The first one of these points he bases upon thelanguage in a speech which I delivered at Springfield,which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. Isaid there that we are now far on in the fifth year whena policy was instituted for the avowed object, and with theconfident promiseof putting and end to slavery agitation;under the operation or that policy that agitation had notonly not ceased, but had constantly augmented. I be-lieve it will not cease until a
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