It is interesting to recall that the two contestants should in youth have been rivals for the hand of the same woman. A further incident in their relations may be noted: At the inauguration of Lincoln, Douglas had the courtesy to hold Lincoln's hat. Moreover, the "Roger Roger" of the episode recorded on page 70, administered the oath of office, while the "James' also cited was the retiring President, Buchanan.

Familiarize with Chains and You Prepare to Wear Them.

"Our reliance [against tyranny] is the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defence is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands-everywhere. Destroy this

spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."

Speech at Edwardsville, Ill., Sept. 13,

1858.

Fighting Proves Nothing.

"I am informed that my distinguished friend [Douglas] yesterday became a little excited nervous perhaps,-—and said something about fighting, as though referring to a pugilistic encounter between him and myself. . . . Well, I merely wish to say that I shall fight neither Judge Douglas nor his second. In the first place, a fight would prove nothing which is in issue in this contest. If my fighting Judge Douglas would not prove anything, it would certainly prove nothing for me to fight his bottle-holder. My second reason is that I don't

believe the Judge wants it himself. He and I are about the best friends in the world, and when we get together, he would no more think of fighting me than of fighting his wife. Therefore, when the Judge talked talked about fighting, he was not giving vent to any ill feeling of his own, but merely trying to excite-well, enthusiasm against me on the part of his audience. And as I find he was tolerably successful, we will call it quits."

Speech at Havana, Ill., 1858.

"Return to the Fountain!"

"My countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not

created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated in our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back! Return to the Fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity-the Declaration of Independence."

Speech at Beardsville, Ill., Aug. 12, 1858. Characterized by Horace White, reporting it for the Chicago Tribune, as Lincoln's "greatest inspiration."

The Bulwark of Liberty.

"What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bustling sea

coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our re

liance is the love of liberty which God has planted in us."

Speech at Edwardsville, Ill., Sept. 13,

1858.

"The Boy Who Did not Weigh as Much as Expected, and He Knew He Would n't!"

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In the Douglas-Lincoln debates, flurry was originated by a trick-fair enough perhaps as matters are in "love, war and politics." Resolutions adopted by a "hole-in-a-corner meeting of Abolitionists were attributed to a council at which Lincoln was, furthermore, accused of presiding. The assertion, when disproved, greatly injured the Democratic cause. Horace Greeley, in a style quite Lincolnic, wrote on this blunder:

Douglas is like the man's boy who did not weigh as much as he expected, and