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Show i.VE K!3 pr:me MINSTER .Incoln A:yi Waited Till the Right Time Before Ht ActeJ. Said Schuyler Colfax. "Time was Lincoln's prlu'e mlnts-er." mlnts-er." aid t-.-huyler Colfas. "He a) ays waited, as a wise man shouid iait. until the r ght mom, at breagbt P all his reserves. Gt-orge W. Curtis tartly appreciated all bis method l.en he claimed for him that be ought to measure so accurately, g reclsaly. tlo public Bentlmeat. that, 'henever he advanced, the loyal boat vt tbe nation would keep step with hi Ml t Douglas constantly asserted that abolition would he followed by amalgamation, amal-gamation, and that the Rcch!i(in party dea'gn d to rrpcal the laws of lliit.u's which prohibited the marriage of blacks and w hit's. 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 hgte ; which presumes that because I did not waat a negro woman tor a alava, I do necessarily want her for a wife, j 1 have never bad tbe least apprehension apprehen-sion that I or any friends would mar- iy negroes f there were no law to 1 keep then, frotu It. but as Judge HoiiK las and bis friends seem to be In great ' i-t-nn -pension rh.;t Mi.r might, if there wertf no law to keep them from It. I 1 giv- him the most solemn pledge that 1 will to the very last stand by the ' i l of this stale which forbids its 1 marrying of the white people with ne- I groes." "The lw means nothing," be said to D R. Lorke. "I shall never marry j a Degress, but I have do objection to 1 j any one else doing so. If a whits i man wants to marry a negro wumaa ' let him do It If the negro wnrran caa ' rtSHi |