a. The territories cannot withhold the legislation which a man needs for the enjoyment of a right fixed in his favor by the Constitution.
III. If such a right as Judge Douglas holds to be a right really exists then the fugitive slave law can be made of no effect by the same kind of action.
Mr. Douglas’s Rejoinder
Proposition: Vote for Douglas and the Democratic party, because
A. Mr. Lincoln’s tendency is toward abolitionism.
B. Lincoln’s course in Congress with reference to the Mexican War was unpatriotic, for
I. He voted that it was unnecessary, unconstitutional, and unjust, after it had been begun.
C. Refutation: Lincoln’s claim to be an old line Clay Whig is false, for
I. In a caucus in 1847 Lincoln wanted to throw Henry Clay overboard and take up General Taylor in his place.
II. Lincoln was the bitter enemy of Clay in the National Convention at Philadelphia.