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gical worship. Jack likes the Prayer Book, because it enables him to "jaw back." It puts him on a level with his fellow-worshippers, and makes him feel himself a sharer in the common humanity and the common redemption, and seek to gain an interest in the common salvation. If it depends on him, he "wont give up the Prayer Book;" it has · been too often the only plank between his soul and shipwreck. It is his Bible in compendium; the Bible brought practically home to his wants and necessities; and he is no true friend of his who would take. it from him.

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One word upon another subject-Polygamy in the Territories-and I have done. That Congress has full power to prohibit it in the District of Columbia is admitted on all hands, and not only admitted, but acted That it has equal power in a Territory, before the organization of the Territorial Legislature, I have already shown from Judge Douglas, (see above, p. 8,) and after it has conferred that power upon the Legislature, it may, if it see occasion, resume it in whole or in part: it cannot shake off its responsibility by delegating its functions to a subordinate authority. Congress has also power to legislate upon slavery in the District, and has exercised that power on more occasions than one. And the power over slavery which it has in the District, it has also in the Territories. The difference between the two institutions is this: the one is recognized by the Constitution, and sanctioned by nearly half the States, and was once sanctioned by them all; the other is not recognized by the Constitution, and moreover, is, and has been, from the beginning, a penitentiary offence in every State in the Union. Unfriendly legislation, therefore, upon the one, except by general consent, is against the spirit of the Constitution; unfriendly legislation upon the other, even to prohibition, is in keeping with its spirit, and demanded by it. And the spirit of the Constitution is the Constitution. The letter killeth; the spirit giveth life.

My platform is complete. Let North and South, Cis-Alleghanian and Trans-Alleghanian plant themselves upon it; it will hold them all and have room to spare.

The following tables will illustrate the practical working of the proposed plan for choosing President, in several contingencies, of which the third is the only very probable one, though either of the others might happen.

The letters A, B, C, &c., designate the candidates; the columns headed 1st, 2d, 3d, contain the votes given for them as 1st, 2d, and 3d choice, respectively; the numbers in those columns, appended to the several States, or groups of States, designate the number of electoral votes to which those States, or groups of States, are severally entitled.

Here, the aggregate vote is equally divided between three tickets. X has the highest vote as first choice, and is President. L is first in the line of succession, and A second. Thus the three highest candidates are divided among the three tickets. Two might be on the same ticket, but all three could not.

Here the aggregate vote is equally divided between the two tickets. The vote as first choice also is equally divided between A and X, but A has the highest number as second choice, and is President. X is first in the line of succession, and Y second.

Here the entire Democratic ticket is elected. X and Y have an equal number of votes as first choice, but Y has the largest as second, and is therefore President. X is first in the line of succession and Z second.

Had Pennsylvania given her 27 votes to W, as third choice, Z would have been defeated, and A, the highest as first choice on the Whig ticket, would have been second in the line of succession.

Here the Whig ticket remaining as in the preceding table. the Democratic ticket is elected; but the vote in the aggregate, and also as first and second, and of course, therefore, as third choice, is equally divided among the three candidates. the three candidates. The vote by States, also, as first choice, is equally divided among the three, each having seven States; but, as second choice X has eight States, Y seven, and Z six. X is, therefore, President, and Y is first in the line of succession, and Z second.