CHAPTER XIV.

Mr. Lincoln not a candidate for re-election.--Judge Logan's defeat.--Mr. Lincoln an applicant for Commissioner of the Land Office.--Offered the Governorship of Oregon.--Views concerning the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850.--Declines to be a candidate for Congress in 1850.--Death of Thomas Lincoln.--Correspondence between Mr. Lincoln and John Johnston.--Eulogy on Henry Clay.--In favor of voluntary emancipation and colonization.--Answer to Mr. Douglas's Richmond speech.--Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.--Mr. Lincoln's views concerning slavery.--Opposed to conferring political privileges upon negroes.--Aroused by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.--Anti-Nebraska party.--Mr. Lincoln the leader.--Mr. Douglas speaks at Chicago.--At Springfield.--Mr. Lincoln replies.--A great speech.--Mr. Douglas rejoins.--The Abolitionists.--Mr. Herndon.--Determined to make Mr. Lincoln an Abolitionist.--They refuse to enter the Know-Nothing lodges.--The Abolitionists desire to force Mr. Lincoln to take a stand.--He runs away from Springfield.--He is requested to "follow up" Mr. Douglas.--Speech at Peoria.--Extract.--Slavery and popular sovereignty.--Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas agree not to speak any more.--The election.--Mr. Lincoln announced for the Legislature by Wm. Jayne.--Mrs. Lincoln withdraws his name.--Jayne restores it.--He is elected.--A candidate for United-States Senator.--Resigns his seat.--Is censured.--Anti-Nebraska majority in the Legislature.--The balloting.--Danger of Governor Matteson's election.--Mr. Lincoln advises his friends to vote for Judge Trumbull.--Trumbull elected.--Charges of conspiracy and corrupt bargain.--Mr. Lincoln's denial.--Mr. Douglas imputes to Mr. Lincoln extreme Abolitionist views.--Mr. Lincoln's answer.............333