refusal to give us a fair apportionment.

There is still another disadvantage under which we labor, and to which I
will ask your attention. It arises out of the relative positions of the
two persons who stand before the State as candidates for the Senate.
Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of
his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been
looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of
the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face
post-offices, land-offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments,
charge-ships and foreign missions bursting and sprouting out in wonderful
exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they
have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in
the little distraction that has taken place in the party, bring
themselves to give up the charming hope; but with greedier anxiety they
rush about him, sustain him, and give him marches, triumphal entries, and
receptions beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they
could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever
expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever
seen that any cabbages were sprouting out. These are disadvantages all,
taken together, that the Republicans labor under. We have to fight this
battle upon principle, and upon principle alone. I am, in a certain
sense, made the standard-bearer in behalf of the Republicans. I was made
so merely because there had to be some one so placed,--I being in nowise
preferable to any other one of twenty-five, perhaps a hundred, we have in
the Republican ranks. Then I say I wish it to be distinctly understood
and borne in mind that we have to fight this battle without many--perhaps
without any of the external aids which are brought to bear against us. So
I hope those with whom I am surrounded have principle enough to nerve
themselves for the task, and leave nothing undone that can be fairly done