And who that thinks with me will not fearlessly adopt the oath I take?
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed.

But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so.

We shall have the proud consolation of saying to our conscience and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved by our judgments and adored by our hearts in disaster, in chains, in torture, and in death, we never failed in defending.
In this canvass Lincoln came again into collision with Douglas, the adversary whom he had met two years before and with whom he was to sustain an almost life-long political conflict.

He also had occasion to show his courage and presence of mind in rescuing from a mob his distinguished friend, Col.

E.D.Baker, afterwards a Senator of the United States.