I now pass from popular sovereignty and Lecompton. I may have occasion to
refer to one or both.

When he was preparing his plan of campaign, Napoleon-like, in New York,
as appears by two speeches I have heard him deliver since his arrival in
Illinois, he gave special attention to a speech of mine, delivered here
on the 16th of June last. He says that he carefully read that speech. He
told us that at Chicago a week ago last night and he repeated it at
Bloomington last night. Doubtless, he repeated it again to-day, though I
did not hear him. In the first two places--Chicago and Bloomington I
heard him; to-day I did not. He said he had carefully examined that
speech,--when, he did not say; but there is no reasonable doubt it was
when he was in New York preparing his plan of campaign. I am glad he did
read it carefully. He says it was evidently prepared with great care. I
freely admit it was prepared with care. I claim not to be more free from
errors than others,--perhaps scarcely so much; but I was very careful not
to put anything in that speech as a matter of fact, or make any
inferences, which did not appear to me to be true and fully warrantable.
If I had made any mistake, I was willing to be corrected; if I had drawn
any inference in regard to Judge Douglas or any one else which was not
warranted, I was fully prepared to modify it as soon as discovered. I
planted myself upon the truth and the truth only, so far as I knew it, or
could be brought to know it.

Having made that speech with the most kindly feelings toward Judge
Douglas, as manifested therein, I was gratified when I found that he had
carefully examined it, and had detected no error of fact, nor any
inference against him, nor any misrepresentations of which he thought fit
to complain. In neither of the two speeches I have mentioned did he make