party, would be placed if you sustained Judge Douglas in his present position by a re-election?  I do not claim, gentlemen, to be unselfish; I do not pretend that I would not like to go to the United States Senate,—­I make no such hypocritical pretence; but I do say to you, that in this mighty issue it is nothing to you, nothing to the mass of the people of the nation, whether or not Judge Douglas or myself shall ever be heard of after this night.  It may be a trifle to either of us; but in connection with this mighty question, upon which hang the destinies of the nation, perhaps, it is absolutely nothing.  But where will you be placed if you reindorse Judge Douglas?  Don’t you know how apt he is, how exceedingly anxious he is, at all times to seize upon anything and everything to persuade you that something he has done you did yourselves?  Why, he tried to persuade you last night that our Illinois Legislature instructed him to introduce the Nebraska bill.  There was nobody in that Legislature ever thought of it; but still he fights furiously for the proposition; and that he did it because there was a standing instruction to our senators to be always introducing Nebraska bills.  He tells you he is for the Cincinnati platform; he tells you he is for the Dred Scott decision; he tells you—­not in his speech last night, but substantially in a former speech—­that he cares not if slavery is voted up or down; he tells you the struggle on Lecompton is past,—­it may come up again or not, and if it does, he stands where he stood when, in spite of him and his opposition, you built up the Republican party.  If you indorse him, you tell him you do not care whether slavery be voted up or down, and he will close, or try to close, your mouths with his declaration, repeated by the day, the week, the month, and the year.  I think, in the position in which Judge Douglas stood in opposing the Lecompton constitution, he was right; he does not know that it will return, but if it does we may know where to find him; and if it does not, we may know where to look for him, and that is on the Cincinnati platform.  Now, I could ask the Republican party, after all the hard names Judge Douglas has called them by, ... all his declarations of Black Republicanism—­(by the way, we are improving, the black has got rubbed off), but with all that, if he be indorsed by Republican votes, where do you stand?  Plainly, you stand ready saddled, bridled, and harnessed, and waiting to be driven over to the slavery-extension camp of the nation,—­just ready to be driven over, tied together in a lot,—­to be driven over, every man with a rope around his neck, that halter being held by Judge Douglas.  That is the question.  If Republican men have been in earnest in what they have done, I think they had better not do it; but I think the Republican party is made up of those who, as far as they can peaceably, will oppose the extension of slavery, and who will hope for its ultimate extinction.  If they believe it is wrong in grasping up the new