[A voice: It is the same thing with you.]

Yes, sir, it is the same thing with me. I do dare to say forgery when it
is true, and don't dare to say forgery when it is false. Now I will say
here to this audience and to Judge Douglas I have not dared to say he
committed a forgery, and I never shall until I know it; but I did dare to
say--just to suggest to the Judge--that a forgery had been committed,
which by his own showing had been traced to him and two of his friends. I
dared to suggest to him that he had expressly promised in one of his
public speeches to investigate that matter, and I dared to suggest to him
that there was an implied promise that when he investigated it he would
make known the result. I dared to suggest to the Judge that he could not
expect to be quite clear of suspicion of that fraud, for since the time
that promise was made he had been with those friends, and had not kept
his promise in regard to the investigation and the report upon it. I am
not a very daring man, but I dared that much, Judge, and I am not much
scared about it yet. When the Judge says he would n't have believed of
Abraham Lincoln that he would have made such an attempt as that he
reminds me of the fact that he entered upon this canvass with the purpose
to treat me courteously; that touched me somewhat. It sets me to
thinking. I was aware, when it was first agreed that Judge Douglas and I
were to have these seven joint discussions, that they were the successive
acts of a drama, perhaps I should say, to be enacted, not merely in the
face of audiences like this, but in the face of the nation, and to some
extent, by my relation to him, and not from anything in myself, in the
face of the world; and I am anxious that they should be conducted with
dignity and in the good temper which would be befitting the vast
audiences before which it was conducted. But when Judge Douglas got home
from Washington and made his first speech in Chicago, the evening
afterward I made some sort of a reply to it. His second speech was made