 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...others to put to Mr. Douglas ; and of these one was : "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? " When Mr. Lincoln consulted a friend upon this set of questions, the friend remonstrated against... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...ninety-three thousand, — will you vote to admit them? 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...the United States, exclude slavery from its limits ? 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1874 - 978 pages
...interrogatory 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 prior to the formation of a Suite constitution f" The Dred Scott decision was, that congress had no right to prohibit a citizen... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...Reynard's constitutional dwelling-place seemed stopped. "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...ninety-three thousand — will he vote to admit them? 2. Can the people of the United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...change his position, in answer to Lincoln's inquiry, " Can the people of a United States Territory in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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
...ninety-three thousand—will he vote to admit them? 2. Can the people of the United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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... | |
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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? 
