Senator Douglas’s Speech
Proposition: Vote for Douglas and the Democratic Party
Introduction
Douglas states that there are three points at issue between Lincoln and himself:
1. Whether the Union can exist half slave and half free.
2. Whether the Supreme Court was in error in the Dred Scott Decision.
3. Whether the Declaration of Independence included the negroes.
Proof
Proposition: (Repeated) Vote for Douglas and the Democratic Party, because
A. The Republican creed is wrong for the reason that it cannot be advocated everywhere, for