any such complaint. I will thank any one who will inform me that he, in
his speech to-day, pointed out anything I had stated respecting him as
being erroneous. I presume there is no such thing. I have reason to be
gratified that the care and caution used in that speech left it so that
he, most of all others interested in discovering error, has not been able
to point out one thing against him which he could say was wrong. He
seizes upon the doctrines he supposes to be included in that speech, and
declares that upon them will turn the issues of this campaign. He then
quotes, or attempts to quote, from my speech. I will not say that he
wilfully misquotes, but he does fail to quote accurately. His attempt at
quoting is from a passage which I believe I can quote accurately from
memory. I shall make the quotation now, with some comments upon it, as I
have already said, in order that the Judge shall be left entirely without
excuse for misrepresenting me. I do so now, as I hope, for the last time.
I do this in great caution, in order that if he repeats his
misrepresentation it shall be plain to all that he does so wilfully. If,
after all, he still persists, I shall be compelled to reconstruct the
course I have marked out for myself, and draw upon such humble resources,
as I have, for a new course, better suited to the real exigencies of the
case. I set out in this campaign with the intention of conducting it
strictly as a gentleman, in substance at least, if not in the outside
polish. The latter I shall never be; but that which constitutes the
inside of a gentleman I hope I understand, and am not less inclined to
practice than others. It was my purpose and expectation that this canvass
would be conducted upon principle, and with fairness on both sides, and
it shall not be my fault if this purpose and expectation shall be given
up.

He charges, in substance, that I invite a war of sections; that I propose
all the local institutions of the different States shall become