course I wished, but I did not much expect, a better result. . .
. I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the
great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in
no other way; and though I now sink out of view and shall be
forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for
the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone."

But he was not to "sink out of view and be forgotten." Douglas
himself contributed not a little toward keeping his name before
the public; for shortly after their contest was ended the
reelected senator started on a trip through the South to set
himself right again with the Southern voters, and in every speech
that he made he referred to Lincoln as the champion of
"abolitionism." In this way the people were not allowed to forget
the stand Lincoln had taken, and during the year 1859 they came
to look upon him as the one man who could be relied on at all
times to answer Douglas and Douglas's arguments.

In the autumn of that year Lincoln was asked to speak in Ohio,
where Douglas was again referring to him by name. In December he
was invited to address meetings in various towns in Kansas, and
early in 1860 he made a speech in New York that raised him
suddenly and unquestionably to the position of a national leader.

It was delivered in the hall of Cooper Institute, on the evening
of February 27, 1860, before an audience of men and women
remarkable for their culture, wealth and influence.

Mr. Lincoln's name and words had filled so large a space in the
Eastern newspapers of late, that his listeners were very eager to