b. Refutation: The statement that Henry Clay held that the negro was not included in the Declaration of Independence is untrue, for
1. He never expressed this belief.
2. The speech referred to in the Chicago Times as showing that this was Mr. Clay’s view shows precisely the opposite view, for
(a) He says that it is true as an abstract principle that all men are created equal, but that we cannot practically apply it in all cases.
C. Lincoln still says that the proposition that “A house divided against itself cannot stand” is true, for
I. The agitation over slavery will not cease, for
a. Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska bill has stirred up the whole discussion again, for
1. Although the Kansas-Nebraska bill was declared to be the end it has stirred up strife in the last Congress and throughout the entire country.
b. In its pretense to confer local self-government the Kansas-Nebraska bill proved to be a lie.
II. The framers of the Constitution hoped to put slavery in a course of extinction, for