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I did not even say that I desired that slavery should be put in course of ultimate extinction. I do say so now, however."^ He believed that slavery had endured, because imtil the Nebraska Act the public mind had rested in the con- viction that slavery would ultimately disappear. In affirming that the opponents of slavery would arrest its further extension, he only meant to say that they ■ Debates, p. 18. 358 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS would put it "where the fathers originally placed it. He was not in ...favor of interfering with slavery where it existed in the States. As to the charge that he was inviting people to resist the Dred Scott decision, Lin- coln responded rather weakly — again laying himself open to attack — "We mean to do what we can to have the court decide the other way.'" Lincoln also betrayed his fear lest Douglas should draw Eepublican votes. Knowing the strong anti- slavery sentiment of the region, he asked when Doug- las had shown anything but indifference on the subject of slavery.
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