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Show riME HIS PRIME MINISTER Lincoln Always Waited Till the Right Time Before He Acted, Said Schuyler Colfax. "Time was Lincoln's prime minister," minis-ter," said Schuyler Colfax. "He always al-ways waited, as a wise man should wait, until the right moment brought up all his reserves. George W. Curtis exactly appreciated all his methods when he claimed for him that he Bought to measure so accurately, so precisely, the public sentiment, that, rhenever ha advanced, the loyal hosts of the nation would keep step with him. Douglas constantly asserted that abolition would be followed by amalgamation, amal-gamation, and that the Republican party designed to repeal the laws of Illinois which prohibited the marriage of blacks and whites. This was a formidable for-midable appeal to the prejudices of the people of southern Illinois especially. "I protest now and forever," said Lincoln, Lin-coln, "against that counterfeit logic, which presumes that because I did not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. I have never had the least apprehension apprehen-sion that I or my friends would mar j ry negi-oes if there were no law to keep them from it, but as Judge Doug- las and his friends seem to he in great j apprehension that, they might, if there : were no law to keep them from it. 1 j sive him the most solemn pledge that i I will to the very last stand by the law of this state which forbids the j marrying of the white people with ne-j ne-j groes." . "The law means nothing," he said I to D. R. Locke. "I shall never marry i a negress, but I have no objection to I any one else doing bo. If a white man wants to marry a neg.o woman let him do it if the negro woman can sisnd |