nominated by State Convention for senatorship, 114;
damaged by Whig support of Douglas, 116, 117;
prepares letter of acceptance, 117, 118;
reads paragraph on situation to friends, 118;
alarms advisers by his plainness of utterance, 119;
insists on asserting the irrepressible conflict, 119;
statesmanship of his course, 120;
challenges Douglas to joint debate, 121;
misrepresentations of his position on slavery, 122-124;
his appeal to "the fathers," 124, 125;