will be deceived. I do not ask for the vote of any one who supposes that
I have secret purposes or pledges that I dare not speak out. Cannot the
Judge be satisfied? If he fears, in the unfortunate case of my election,
that my going to Washington will enable me to advocate sentiments
contrary to those which I expressed when you voted for and elected me, I
assure him that his fears are wholly needless and groundless. Is the
Judge really afraid of any such thing? I'll tell you what he is afraid
of. He is afraid we'll all pull together. This is what alarms him more
than anything else. For my part, I do hope that all of us, entertaining a
common sentiment in opposition to what appears to us a design to
nationalize and perpetuate slavery, will waive minor differences on
questions which either belong to the dead past or the distant future, and
all pull together in this struggle. What are your sentiments? If it be
true that on the ground which I occupy--ground which I occupy as frankly
and boldly as Judge Douglas does his,--my views, though partly coinciding
with yours, are not as perfectly in accordance with your feelings as his
are, I do say to you in all candor, go for him, and not for me. I hope to
deal in all things fairly with Judge Douglas, and with the people of the
State, in this contest. And if I should never be elected to any office, I
trust I may go down with no stain of falsehood upon my reputation,
notwithstanding the hard opinions Judge Douglas chooses to entertain of
me.

The Judge has again addressed himself to the Abolition tendencies of a
speech of mine made at Springfield in June last. I have so often tried to
answer what he is always saying on that melancholy theme that I almost
turn with disgust from the discussion,--from the repetition of an answer
to it. I trust that nearly all of this intelligent audience have read
that speech. If you have, I may venture to leave it to you to inspect it
closely, and see whether it contains any of those "bugaboos" which