resolutions which he read, and I understand that it was from that set
of resolutions that he deduced the interrogatories which he propounded
to me, using these resolutions as a sort of authority for propounding
those questions to me. Now I say here to-day that I do not answer his
interrogatories because of their springing at all from that set of
resolutions which he read. I answered them because Judge Douglas
thought fit to ask them. I do not now, nor ever did, recognize any
responsibility upon myself in that set of resolutions. When I replied
to him on that occasion, I assured him that I never had anything to do
with them. I repeat here to-day, that I never in any possible form had
anything to do with that set of resolutions. It turns out, I believe,
that those resolutions were never passed at any convention held in
Springfield. It turns out that they were never passed at any
convention or any public meeting that I had any part in. I believe it
turns out, in addition to all this, that there was not, in the fall of
1854, any convention holding a session in Springfield calling itself a
Republican State convention; yet it is true there was a convention, or
assemblage of men calling themselves a convention, at Springfield, that
did pass _some_ resolutions. But so little did I really know of the
proceedings of that convention, or what set of resolutions they had
passed, though having a general knowledge that there had been such an
assemblage of men there, that when Judge Douglas read the resolutions,
I really did not know but that they had been the resolutions passed
then and there. I did not question that they were the resolutions
adopted. For I could not bring myself to suppose that Judge Douglas
could say what he did upon this subject without _knowing_ that it was
true. I contented myself, on that occasion, with denying, as I truly
could, all connection with them, not denying or affirming whether they
were passed at Springfield. Now it turns out that he had got hold of
some resolutions passed at some convention or public meeting in Kane