Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3Unit Book Publishing Company, 1905 - 389 pages |
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... Popular sovereignty ! everlasting popular sover- eignty ! Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty . What is popular sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle ...
... Popular sovereignty ! everlasting popular sover- eignty ! Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty . What is popular sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle ...
Page 154
... popular They are not very numerous . sovereignty . The second and third are attacks upon my speech made on the 16th of June . Out of these three points - drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the question of the Lecompton Con ...
... popular They are not very numerous . sovereignty . The second and third are attacks upon my speech made on the 16th of June . Out of these three points - drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the question of the Lecompton Con ...
Page 156
... popular sovereignty , but absolutely opposing it . He sustains the decision which declares that the popular will of the Territory has no constitutional power to exclude slavery during their territorial existence . This being so , the ...
... popular sovereignty , but absolutely opposing it . He sustains the decision which declares that the popular will of the Territory has no constitutional power to exclude slavery during their territorial existence . This being so , the ...
Contents
FIRST JOINT DEBATE AT OTTAWA AUGUST 21 1858 | 185 |
DOUGLASS Rejoinder | 232 |
SECOND JOINT Debate at Freeport August 27 1858 | 243 |
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