upon any occasion, and I took pains to compliment him for it.  I then told him to give it to them with all the power he had; and as some of them were present, I told them I would be very much obliged if they would give it to him in about the same way.  I take it he has now vastly improved upon the attack he made then upon the Administration.  I flatter myself he has really taken my advice on this subject.  All I can say now is to re-commend to him and to them what I then commended,—­to prosecute the war against one another in the most vigorous manner.  I say to them again:  “Go it, husband!—­Go it, bear!”

There is one other thing I will mention before I leave this branch of the discussion,—­although I do not consider it much of my business, anyway.  I refer to that part of the Judge’s remarks where he undertakes to involve Mr. Buchanan in an inconsistency.  He reads something from Mr. Buchanan, from which he undertakes to involve him in an inconsistency; and he gets something of a cheer for having done so.  I would only remind the Judge that while he is very valiantly fighting for the Nebraska Bill and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, it has been but a little while since he was the valiant advocate of the Missouri Compromise.  I want to know if Buchanan has not as much right to be inconsistent as Douglas has?  Has Douglas the exclusive right, in this country, of being on all sides of all questions?  Is nobody allowed that high privilege but himself?  Is he to have an entire monopoly on that subject?

So far as Judge Douglas addressed his speech to me, or so far as it was about me, it is my business to pay some attention to it.  I have heard the Judge state two or three times what he has stated to-day, that in a speech which I made at Springfield, Illinois, I had in a very especial manner complained that the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case had decided that a negro could never be a citizen of the United States.  I have omitted by some accident heretofore to analyze this statement, and it is required of me to notice it now.  In point of fact it is untrue.  I never have complained especially of the Dred Scott decision because it held that a negro could not be a citizen, and the Judge is always wrong when he says I ever did so complain of it.  I have the speech here, and I will thank him or any of his friends to show where I said that a negro should be a citizen, and complained especially of the Dred Scott decision because it declared he could not be one.  I have done no such thing; and Judge Douglas, so persistently insisting that I have done so, has strongly impressed me with the belief of a predetermination on his part to misrepresent me.  He could not get his foundation for insisting that I was in favor of this negro equality anywhere else as well as he could by assuming that untrue proposition.  Let me tell this audience what is true in regard to that matter; and the means by which they may correct me if I do not tell them