douglas doesn't open on the issue of slavery. instead he plays to the crowd. >> ladies and gentlemen, i do not question mr. lincoln's conscientious belief that the negro is his equal, but i do not regard the negro as my equal. >> douglas was not one to talk about legalizing slavery in the territories so much as he wants to paint lincoln as a pro-negro politician. he is, in other words, playing the race card and playing it in the most shameless fashion imaginable. >> but the prairie lawyer is not going to be deflected from his mission to see the end of slavery in america. >> lincoln had always said that if slavery isn't wrong, then