He made but two speeches, one at Columbus, and one at Cincinnati, at each of which places Douglas had recently preceded him.
Lincoln's addresses not only brought him large and appreciative audiences, but they obtained an unprecedented circulation in print.

In the main, they reproduced and tersely re-applied the ideas and arguments developed in the Senatorial campaign in Illinois, adding, however, searching comments on the newer positions and points to which Douglas had since advanced.

There is only space to insert a few disconnected quotations: Now, what is Judge Douglas's popular sovereignty?
It is as a principle no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object....
If you will read the copyright essay, you will discover that Judge Douglas himself says, a controversy between the American Colonies and the Government of Great Britain began on the slavery question in 1699, and continued from that time until the Revolution; and, while he did not say so, we all know that it has continued with more or less violence ever since the Revolution....
Take these two things and consider them together; present the question of planting a State with the institution of slavery by the side of a question of who shall be Governor of Kansas for a year or two, and is there a man here, is there a man on earth, who would not say the governor question is the little one, and the slavery question is the great one?
I ask any honest Democrat if the small, the local, the trivial and temporary question is not, Who shall be governor?
while the durable, the important, and the mischievous one is, Shall this soil be planted with slavery?
This is an idea, I suppose, which has arisen in Judge Douglas's mind from his peculiar structure.

I suppose the institution of slavery really looks small to him.

He is so put up by nature that a lash upon his back would hurt him, but a lash upon anybody else's back does not hurt him....
The Dred Scott decision expressly gives every citizen of the United States a right to carry his slaves into the United States Territories.