But the man who was chosen to meet him, who challenged him to the combat, was radically different in every phase of character.
Scarcely could two men be more unlike, in mental and moral constitutions, than Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.Douglas.

Mr.
Lincoln was calm and philosophic.

He loved the truth for the truth's sake.

He would not argue from a false premise, or be deceived himself or deceive others by a false conclusion.

He had pondered deeply on the issues which aroused him to action.