that he has attended to, and ask your attention to them, and I shall
follow him backwards upon some notes which I have taken, reversing the
order, by beginning where he concluded.

The Judge has alluded to the Declaration of Independence, and insisted
that negroes are not included in that Declaration; and that it is a
slander upon the framers of that instrument to suppose that negroes were
meant therein; and he asks you: Is it possible to believe that Mr.
Jefferson, who penned the immortal paper, could have supposed himself
applying the language of that instrument to the negro race, and yet held
a portion of that race in slavery? Would he not at once have freed them?
I only have to remark upon this part of the Judge's speech (and that,
too, very briefly, for I shall not detain myself, or you, upon that point
for any great length of time), that I believe the entire records of the
world, from the date of the Declaration of Independence up to within
three years ago, may be searched in vain for one single affirmation, from
one single man, that the negro was not included in the Declaration of
Independence; I think I may defy Judge Douglas to show that he ever said
so, that Washington ever said so, that any President ever said so, that
any member of Congress ever said so, or that any living man upon the
whole earth ever said so, until the necessities of the present policy of
the Democratic party, in regard to slavery, had to invent that
affirmation. And I will remind Judge Douglas and this audience that while
Mr. Jefferson was the owner of slaves, as undoubtedly he was, in speaking
upon this very subject he used the strong language that "he trembled for
his country when he remembered that God was just"; and I will offer the
highest premium in my power to Judge Douglas if he will show that he, in
all his life, ever uttered a sentiment at all akin to that of Jefferson.

The next thing to which I will ask your attention is the Judge's comments