Its influence and effect were co-extensive with the Republic.

It introduced a new and distinct phase in the controversy that was engrossing all minds.

The position of Douglas separated him from the Southern Democracy, and this, of itself, was a fact of great significance.

The South saw that the ablest leader of the Northern Democracy had been compelled, in order to save himself at home, to abjure the very doctrine on which the safety of slave institutions depended.

The propositions enunciated by Douglas in answer to the questions of Mr.Lincoln, in the Freeport debate, were as distasteful to the Southern mind as the position of Mr.
Lincoln himself.