their party now has. It is better, then, to save the work while it is
begun. You have done the labor; maintain it, keep it. If men choose to
serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon
principle, stand by it; for, as surely as God reigns over you, and has
inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to
give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you
will at last come back again after your wanderings, merely to do your
work over again.

We were often,--more than once, at least,--in the course of Judge
Douglas's speech last night, reminded that this government was made for
white men; that he believed it was made for white men. Well, that is
putting it into a shape in which no one wants to deny it; but the Judge
then goes into his passion for drawing inferences that are not warranted.
I protest, now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes
that because I did not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily
want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for
either, but, as God made us separate, we can leave one another alone, and
do one another much good thereby. There are white men enough to marry all
the white women, and enough black men to marry all the black women; and
in God's name let them be so married. The Judge regales us with the
terrible enormities that take place by the mixture of races; that the
inferior race bears the superior down. Why, Judge, if we do not let them
get together in the Territories, they won't mix there.

[A voice: "Three cheers for Lincoln".--The cheers were given with a
hearty good-will.]

I should say at least that that is a self-evident truth.