 Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?  The Approaching Fury - Page 255by Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 100 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...such a way that every loop-hole of escape in Reynard's constitutional dwelling-place seemed stopped. "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" To refuse an answer was to admit defeat. Bat must not every answer given come in conflict either with... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1877 - 974 pages
...United States territory, iii any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United Stetes, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution t" The Dred Scott decision was, that congress had no right to proliil>it a citizen of the United Stetes... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...Douglas four others, by one of which he was asked if the people of a United States territory could in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...the United States, exclude slavery from its limits ? To which Douglas replied that the people of a territory had the lawful means to exclude slavery by... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...Douglas four others, by one of which he was asked if the people of a United States territory could in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...the United States, exclude slavery from its limits ? To which Douglas replied that the people of a territory had the lawful means to exclude slavery by... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...according to the English bill — some ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them? "Q. 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution? "Q. 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...defeat for the Senatorship, was compelled to change his position, in answer to Lincoln's inquiry, " Can the people of a United States Territory in any...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?" The Dred Scott decision he had indorsed, and which he said he would sustain, said " no." But the political... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...the English bill —some ninety-three thousand—will he vote to admit them? 2. Can the people of the United States Territory, in any lawful way, against...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...English bill — some ninety-three thousand — will he vote to admit them? 2. Can the people of the United States Territory, in any lawful way, against...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 700 pages
...will you vote to admit them ? Second, Can the people of a United-States Territory, in any lawful war, against the wish of any citizen of the United States,...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? Third, If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...whether, the Dred Scott decision notwithstanding, ' the people of a Territory could, in any lawful way, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution.' .... The interrogatory was pressed upon Douglas, and Douglas did [as. Lmcoln predicted] answer that,... | |
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