responsible for the doctrines contained in the set of resolutions which
he read, and I understand that it was from that set of resolutions that
he deduced the interrogatories which he propounded to me, using these
resolutions as a sort of authority for propounding those questions to me.
Now, I say here to-day that I do not answer his interrogatories because
of their springing at all from that set of resolutions which he read. I
answered them because Judge Douglas thought fit to ask them. I do not
now, nor ever did, recognize any responsibility upon myself in that set
of resolutions. When I replied to him on that occasion, I assured him
that I never had anything to do with them. I repeat here to today that I
never in any possible form had anything to do with that set of
resolutions It turns out, I believe, that those resolutions were never
passed in any convention held in Springfield.

It turns out that they were never passed at any convention or any public
meeting that I had any part in. I believe it turns out, in addition to
all this, that there was not, in the fall of 1854, any convention holding
a session in Springfield, calling itself a Republican State Convention;
yet it is true there was a convention, or assemblage of men calling
themselves a convention, at Springfield, that did pass some resolutions.
But so little did I really know of the proceedings of that convention, or
what set of resolutions they had passed, though having a general
knowledge that there had been such an assemblage of men there, that when
Judge Douglas read the resolutions, I really did not know but they had
been the resolutions passed then and there. I did not question that they
were the resolutions adopted. For I could not bring myself to suppose
that Judge Douglas could say what he did upon this subject without
knowing that it was true. I contented myself, on that occasion, with
denying, as I truly could, all connection with them, not denying or
affirming whether they were passed at Springfield. Now, it turns out that