In his pamphlet reply to Judge Black he repeated his determination with emphasis.

"Suppose it were true that I am a Presidential aspirant; does that fact justify a combination by a host of other Presidential aspirants, each of whom may imagine that his success depends upon my destruction, and the preaching a crusade against me for boldly avowing now the same principles to which they and I were pledged at the last Presidential election! Is this a sufficient excuse for devising a new test of political orthodoxy ?...

I prefer the position of Senator or even that of a private citizen, where I would be at liberty to defend and maintain the well-defined principles of the Democratic party, to accepting a Presidential nomination upon a platform incompatible with the principle of self-government in the Territories, or the reserved rights of the States, or the perpetuity of the Union under the Constitution." [Sidenote] "Globe," p.

658.
[Sidenote] Jefferson Davis, Senate Speech, "Globe," May 17, 1860, p.

2155.
[Sidenote] "Globe", March 1, 1860, p.