that time was to beat Yates and elect Harris to Congress, and that object
was known to be exceedingly dear to Judge Douglas at that time. Harris
and Douglas were both in Springfield when the Convention was in session,
and although they both left before the fraud appeared in the Register,
subsequent events show that they have both had their eyes fixed upon that
Convention.

The fraud having been apparently successful upon the occasion, both
Harris and Douglas have more than once since then been attempting to put
it to new uses. As the fisherman's wife, whose drowned husband was
brought home with his body full of eels, said when she was asked what was
to be done with him, "Take the eels out and set him again," so Harris and
Douglas have shown a disposition to take the eels out of that stale fraud
by which they gained Harris's election, and set the fraud again more than
once. On the 9th of July, 1856, Douglas attempted a repetition of it upon
Trumbull on the floor of the Senate of the United States, as will appear
from the appendix of the Congressional Globe of that date.

On the 9th of August, Harris attempted it again upon Norton in the House
of Representatives, as will appear by the same documents,--the appendix
to the Congressional Globe of that date. On the 21st of August last, all
three--Lanphier, Douglas, and Harris--reattempted it upon me at Ottawa.
It has been clung to and played out again and again as an exceedingly
high trump by this blessed trio. And now that it has been discovered
publicly to be a fraud we find that Judge Douglas manifests no surprise
at it at all. He makes no complaint of Lanphier, who must have known it
to be a fraud from the beginning. He, Lanphier, and Harris are just as
cozy now and just as active in the concoction of new schemes as they were
before the general discovery of this fraud. Now, all this is very natural
if they are all alike guilty in that fraud, and it is very unnatural if