it or not will depend upon the opinion that I may hereafter form of the true meaning and nature of the resolutions of annexation.  If, by said resolutions, the honor and good faith of the nation is pledged to admit more Slave States from Texas when she (Texas) may apply for the admission of such State, then I should, if in Congress, vote for their admission.  But if not so pledged and bound by sacred contract, then a bill for the admission of more Slave States from Texas would never receive my vote.

“To your fourth interrogatory I answer most decidedly in the affirmative, and for reasons set forth in my reported remarks at Ottawa last Monday.

“To your fifth interrogatory I also reply in the affirmative most cordially, and that I will use my utmost exertions to secure the nomination and election of a man who will accomplish the objects of said interrogatories.  I most cordially approve of the resolutions adopted at the Union meeting held at Princeton on the 27th September ult.

“Yours, etc., R. S. Molony.”

All I have to say in regard to Dr. Molony is that he was the regularly nominated Democratic candidate for Congress in his district; was elected at that time; at the end of his term was appointed to a land-office at Danville. (I never heard anything of Judge Douglas’s instrumentality in this.) He held this office a considerable time, and when we were at Freeport the other day there were handbills scattered about notifying the public that after our debate was over R. S. Molony would make a Democratic speech in favor of Judge Douglas.  That is all I know of my own personal knowledge.  It is added here to this resolution, and truly I believe, that among those who participated in the Joliet Convention, and who supported its nominee, with his platform as laid down in the resolution of the Convention and in his reply as above given, we call at random the following names, all of which are recognized at this day as leading Democrats: 

“Cook County,—­E.  B. Williams, Charles McDonell, Arno Voss, Thomas Hoyne, Isaac Cook.”

I reckon we ought to except Cook.

“F.  C. Sherman. 
“Will,—­Joel A. Matteson, S. W. Bowen. 
“Kane,—­B.  F. Hall, G. W. Renwick, A. M. Herrington, Elijah Wilcox. 
“McHenry,—­W.  M. Jackson, Enos W. Smith, Neil Donnelly. 
La Salle,—­John Hise, William Reddick.”

William Reddick! another one of Judge Douglas’s friends that stood on the stand with him at Ottawa, at the time the Judge says my knees trembled so that I had to be carried away.  The names are all here: 

“Du Page,—­Nathan Allen. 
“De Kalb,—­Z.  B. Mayo.”

Here is another set of resolutions which I think are apposite to the matter in hand.

On the 28th of February of the same year a Democratic District Convention was held at Naperville to nominate a candidate for Circuit Judge.  Among the delegates were Bowen and Kelly of Will; Captain Naper, H. H. Cody, Nathan Allen, of Du Page; W. M. Jackson, J. M. Strode, P. W. Platt, and Enos W. Smith of McHenry; J. Horssnan and others of Winnebago.  Colonel Strode presided over the Convention.  The following resolutions were unanimously adopted,—­the first on motion of P. W. Platt, the second on motion of William M. Jackson: