mentioned them in a lump, taken in connection with the introduction of
the Nebraska Bill, and the amendment of Chase, offered at the time,
declaratory of the right of the people of the Territories to exclude
slavery, which was voted down by the friends of the bill. I mentioned all
these things together, as evidence tending to prove a combination and
conspiracy to make the institution of slavery national. In that
connection and in that way I mentioned the decision on the point that a
negro could not be a citizen, and in no other connection.

Out of this Judge Douglas builds up his beautiful fabrication of my
purpose to introduce a perfect social and political equality between the
white and black races. His assertion that I made an "especial objection"
(that is his exact language) to the decision on this account is untrue in
point of fact.

Now, while I am upon this subject, and as Henry Clay has been alluded to,
I desire to place myself, in connection with Mr. Clay, as nearly right
before this people as may be. I am quite aware what the Judge's object is
here by all these allusions. He knows that we are before an audience
having strong sympathies southward, by relationship, place of birth, and
so on. He desires to place me in an extremely Abolition attitude. He read
upon a former occasion, and alludes, without reading, to-day to a portion
of a speech which I delivered in Chicago. In his quotations from that
speech, as he has made them upon former occasions, the extracts were
taken in such a way as, I suppose, brings them within the definition of
what is called garbling,--taking portions of a speech which, when taken
by themselves, do not present the entire sense of the speaker as
expressed at the time. I propose, therefore, out of that same speech, to
show how one portion of it which he skipped over (taking an extract
before and an extract after) will give a different idea, and the true