to bring about the right result.

After Senator Douglas left Washington, as his movements were made known
by the public prints, he tarried a considerable time in the city of New
York; and it was heralded that, like another Napoleon, he was lying by
and framing the plan of his campaign. It was telegraphed to Washington
City, and published in the Union, that he was framing his plan for the
purpose of going to Illinois to pounce upon and annihilate the
treasonable and disunion speech which Lincoln had made here on the 16th
of June. Now, I do suppose that the Judge really spent some time in New
York maturing the plan of the campaign, as his friends heralded for him.
I have been able, by noting his movements since his arrival in Illinois,
to discover evidences confirmatory of that allegation. I think I have
been able to see what are the material points of that plan. I will, for a
little while, ask your attention to some of them. What I shall point out,
though not showing the whole plan, are, nevertheless, the main points, as
I suppose.

They are not very numerous. The first is popular sovereignty. The second
and third are attacks upon my speech made on the 16th of June. Out of
these three points--drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the
question of the Lecompton Constitution--he makes his principal assault.
Upon these his successive speeches are substantially one and the same. On
this matter of popular sovereignty I wish to be a little careful.
Auxiliary to these main points, to be sure, are their thunderings of
cannon, their marching and music, their fizzlegigs and fireworks; but I
will not waste time with them. They are but the little trappings of the
campaign.

Coming to the substance,--the first point, "popular sovereignty." It is