...for a candid answer to four questions that he might get an answer to one of them. That question was, "Can the people of a United States Territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits?" Mr. Douglas answered,...

...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." Lincoln foresaw and predicted what Douglas would answer : that slavery could not exist in a Territory...

...despondently ; one would think he did not want the senatorship. The mooted question ran in Lincoln's notes : " Can the people of a United States territory in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution? " Lincoln had seen the irreconcilableness of Douglas's own measure of popular sovereignty.-which declared...

...the Democracy would be the result. Therefore, in the debate at Freeport, Lincoln put this question: " Can the people of a United States territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution ?" ' To this Douglas answered that it did not matter what the Supreme Court might decide as to the...

...despondently; one would think he did not want the senatorship. The mooted question ran in Lincoln's notes : "Can the people of a United States territory in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" Lincoln had seen the irreconcilableness of Douglas's own measure of popular sovereignty, which declared...

...according to the English Bill, — some ninetythree 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...

...English bill—some ninety-three thousand— will you vote to admit them?" Q. 2. "Can the people oi a United Sta'tes Territory, in any lawful way, against...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" Q. 3. "If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States can not exclude slavery from...

...formulated it, was : " Can the people of a United States Territory, under the Dred Scott decision, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution ? " . Douglas's intellectual insight was not clear enough and penetrating enough to discover the inconsistency...

...discussion, asked Douglas the following question : " Can the people of a United States Territory in a lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the...States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the foundation of a State Constitution? " His friends said: "Douglas will answer it in the affirmative...

...wildest demonstrations of delight. At Freeport, Lincoln asked his antagonist : Can the people of a Territory in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery prior to the formation of a State constitution ? Douglas, true to " popular sovereignty," answered...