He says that upon the score of equality slaves should be allowed to go into a new Territory, like other property.

This is strictly logical if there is no difference between it and other property.

If it and other property are equal, his argument is entirely logical.

But if you insist that one is wrong and the other right, there is no use to institute a comparison between right and wrong.

You may turn over everything in the Democratic policy from beginning to end, whether in the shape it takes on the statute book, in the shape it takes in the Dred Scott decision, in the shape it takes in conversation, or the shape it takes in short maxim-like arguments--it everywhere carefully excludes the idea that there is anything wrong in it.
[Sidenote] Lincoln-Douglas Debates, pp.