say now that there is a sentiment in the country contrary to me,—­a sentiment which holds that slavery is not wrong, and therefore it goes for the policy that does not propose dealing with it as a wrong.  That policy is the Democratic policy, and that sentiment is the Democratic sentiment.  If there be a doubt in the mind of any one of this vast audience that this is really the central idea of the Democratic party in relation to this subject, I ask him to bear with me while I state a few things tending, as I think, to prove that proposition.  In the first place, the leading man—­I think I may do my friend Judge Douglas the honor of calling him such advocating the present Democratic policy never himself says it is wrong.  He has the high distinction, so far as I know, of never having said slavery is either right or wrong.  Almost everybody else says one or the other, but the Judge never does.  If there be a man in the Democratic party who thinks it is wrong, and yet clings to that party, I suggest to him, in the first place, that his leader don’t talk as he does, for he never says that it is wrong.  In the second place, I suggest to him that if he will examine the policy proposed to be carried forward, he will find that he carefully excludes the idea that there is anything wrong in it.  If you will examine the arguments that are made on it, you will find that every one carefully excludes the idea that there is anything wrong in slavery.  Perhaps that Democrat who says he is as much opposed to slavery as I am will tell me that I am wrong about this.  I wish him to examine his own course in regard to this matter a moment, and then see if his opinion will not be changed a little.  You say it is wrong; but don’t you constantly object to anybody else saying so?  Do you not constantly argue that this is not the right place to oppose it?  You say it must not be opposed in the free States, because slavery is not here; it must not be opposed in the slave States, because it is there; it must not be opposed in politics, because that will make a fuss; it must not be opposed in the pulpit, because it is not religion.  Then where is the place to oppose it?  There is no suitable place to oppose it.  There is no place in the country to oppose this evil overspreading the continent, which you say yourself is coming.  Frank Blair and Gratz Brown tried to get up a system of gradual emancipation in Missouri, had an election in August, and got beat, and you, Mr. Democrat, threw up your hat, and hallooed “Hurrah for Democracy!” So I say, again, that in regard to the arguments that are made, when Judge Douglas Says he “don’t care whether slavery is voted up or voted down,” whether he means that as an individual expression of sentiment, or only as a sort of statement of his views on national policy, it is alike true to say that he can thus argue logically if he don’t see anything wrong in it; but he cannot say so logically if he admits that slavery is wrong.  He cannot say that he would as soon see a wrong voted up as