![]() ![]() I do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the slave-trade between the different States. "I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to the prohibition of the slave-trade between the different States?"Ī. I do not stand to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. "I want to know whether he stands to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia?"Ī. I do not stand pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union, with such a Constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make. "1 want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union with such a Constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make?"Ī. I do not now, or ever did, stand pledged against the admission of any more slave States into the Union. "I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day, as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more slave States into the Union, even if the people want them?"Ī. I do not now, nor ever did, stand in favor of the unconditional repeal of the Fugitive Slave law. "I desire to know whether Lincoln to-day stands, as he did in 1854, in favor of the unconditional repeal of the Fugitive Slave law?"Īnswer. The first one of these interrogatories is in these words: In order that there may be no mistake about it, I have copied the interrogatories in writing, and also my answers to them. Having said thus much, I will take up the Judge's interrogatories as I find them printed in the Chicago Times, and answer them seriatim. If in any interrogatories which I shall answer I go beyond the scope of what is within these platforms, it will be perceived that no one is responsible but myself. I have supposed myself, since the organization of the Republican party at Bloomington, in May, 1856, bound as a party man by the platforms of the party, then and since. I now say that I will answer his interrogatories, whether he answers mine or not and that after I have done so, I shall propound mine to him. I now propose that I will answer any of the interrogatories, upon condition that he will answer quest ions from me not exceeding the same number. I do him no injustice in saying that he occupied at least half of his reply in dealing with me as though I had refused to answer his interrogatories. He made no intimation at the time of the proposition, nor did he in his reply allude at all to that suggestion of mine. ![]() I then distinctly intimated to him that I would answer the rest of his interrogatories on condition only that he should agree to answer as many for me. In my speech of an hour and a half, I attended to some other parts of his speech, and incidentally, as I thought, answered one of the interrogatories then. ![]() In the course of that opening argument Judge Douglas proposed to me seven distinct interrogatories. Of course there was brought within the scope in that half-hour's speech something of his own opening speech. I propose to devote myself during the first hour to the scope of what was brought within the range of his half-hour speech at Ottawa. I am to speak an hour, he an hour and a half, and then I am to reply for half an hour. He spoke one hour, I an hour and a half, and he replied for half an hour. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - On Saturday last, Judge Douglas and myself first met in public discussion. Turner, and was greeted with loud cheers. ![]()
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