We shall not fail--if we stand firm we shall not fail.

Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." [Sidenote] See O.J.Hollister, "Life of Colfax," pp.

119-22.
[Sidenote] J.Watson Webb to Bates, June 9, 1858.

MS.
Lincoln's declaration that the cause of slavery restriction "must be intrusted to its own undoubted friends" had something more than a general meaning.

We have seen that while Douglas avowed he did not care "whether slavery was voted down or voted up" in the Territories, he had opposed the Lecompton Constitution on the ground of its non-submission to popular vote, and that this opposition caused the Buchanan Democrats to treat him as an apostate.