To be sure, if we will all stop and allow Judge Douglas and his friends to march on in their present career until they plant the institution all over the nation, here and wherever else our flag waves, and we acquiesce in it, there will be peace.
Lincoln sarcastically suggests that peace on slavery could only be achieved by allowing its expansion throughout the nation under Stephen Douglas's policies.
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