Judge Douglas's aid as with it. They had all taken ground against it long
before he did. Why, the reason that he urges against that constitution I
urged against him a year before. I have the printed speech in my hand.
The argument that he makes, why that constitution should not be adopted,
that the people were not fairly represented nor allowed to vote, I
pointed out in a speech a year ago, which I hold in my hand now, that no
fair chance was to be given to the people. ["Read it, Read it."] I shall
not waste your time by trying to read it. ["Read it, Read it."]
Gentlemen, reading from speeches is a very tedious business, particularly
for an old man that has to put on spectacles, and more so if the man be
so tall that he has to bend over to the light.

A little more, now, as to this matter of popular sovereignty and the
Lecompton Constitution. The Lecompton Constitution, as the Judge tells
us, was defeated. The defeat of it was a good thing or it was not. He
thinks the defeat of it was a good thing, and so do I, and we agree in
that. Who defeated it?

[A voice: Judge Douglas.]

Yes, he furnished himself, and if you suppose he controlled the other
Democrats that went with him, he furnished three votes; while the
Republicans furnished twenty.

That is what he did to defeat it. In the House of Representatives he and
his friends furnished some twenty votes, and the Republicans furnished
ninety odd. Now, who was it that did the work?

[A voice: Douglas.]