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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Second joint debate, at Freeport, August 27, 1858. (search)
de of the Senate, were silent. They left it to me to denounce it. And what was the reply made to me on that occasion? Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, got up and undertook to lecture me on the ground that I ought not to have deemed the article worthy of not manifest that his eye was a great deal farther north than it is to-day. The Judge says that though he made this charge, Toombs got up and declared there was not a man in the United States, except the editor of the Union who was in favor of the doctut a fatal blow, by which the States were to be deprived of the right of excluding slavery, it all went to pot as soon as Toombs got up and told him it was not, true. It reminds me of the story that John Phoenix, the California railroad surveyor, tesurveyor put it down in his book-just as Judge Douglas says, after he had made his calculations and computations, he took Toombs's statement. I have no doubt that after Judge Douglas had made his charge, he was as easily satisfied about its truth as
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Fourth joint debate, at Charleston, September 18, 1858. (search)
tricken out — a bill which goes by the name of Toombs, because he originally brought it forward? I n consultation between him (Judge Douglas) and Toombs. And Judge Douglas goes on to comment upon therations were made by him in consultation with Toombs. Trumbull alleges therefore, as his conclusioves. Subsequently the Senator from Georgia [Mr. Toombs] brought forward a substitute for my bill, wee of Territories, to which both my bill and Mr. Toombs's substitute had been referred. I was overrbill had been made by him in consultation with Toombs, the originator of the bill. He tells us the snstitution to the people. This amendment of Mr. Toombs was referred to the committee of which Mr. Dves. Subsequently the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Toombs), brought forward a substitute for my bill, stitution, when formed, to the people? The Toombs bill did not pass in the exact shape in which ould not have had the requisite population. Mr. Toombs took it into his head to bring in a bill to [20 more...]
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Fifth joint debate, at Galesburgh, October 7, 1858. (search)
s. Mr. Lincoln knew better when he asserted this; he knew that one newspaper, and so far as is within my knowledge but one, ever asserted that doctrine, and that I was the first man in either House of Congress that read each article in debate, and denounced it on the floor of the Senate as revolutionary When the Washington Union, on the 17th of last November, published an article to that effect, I branded it at once, and denounced it, and hence the Union has been pursuing me ever since. Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, replied to me, and said that there was not a man in any of the slave States south of the Potomac river that held any such doctrine. Mr. Lincoln knows that there is not a member of the Supreme Court who holds that doctrine ; be knows that every one of them, as shown by their opinions, holds the reverse. Why this attempt, then, to bring the Supreme Court into disrepute among the people? It looks as if there was an effort being made to destroy public confidence in the highest