Proposition: (Repeated) Vote for Lincoln and the Republican party, because
A. Refutation: The statement that I have complained that the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case had decided that a negro could never be a citizen of the United States is untrue, for
I. No such idea can be found in my speech.
II. The truth is that I mentioned the Dred Scott Decision only as part of a conspiracy to make slavery national.
B. Douglas misrepresents my position on the Declaration of Independence, for
I. He has garbled my Chicago speech, for
a. He omitted between two quotations four sentences necessary to my meaning.
II. Douglas has taken no notice of an extract from my Springfield speech in which my views are clearly expressed.
III. My position is the same as that of Henry Clay, for
a. Clay declared the Declaration as an abstract principle is true and the new proposition of the Dred Scott Decision is intended to make the negro nothing but property in all the states.