 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them ? Q. 2. 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 ? Q. 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...will you vote to admit them? '• Can the people of a United States territory in any lawful manner, against the wish of any citizen of the United States,...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution? "If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that states cannot exclude slavery from their... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 130 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." Lincoln foresaw and predicted what Douglas would answer : that slavery could not exist in a Territory... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 142 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." Lincoln foresaw and predicted what Douglas would answer : that slavery could not exist in a Territory... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...the Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...prior to the formation of a State constitution?"* It was necessary for Douglas, in his reply, to reconcile his principle of popular sovereignty with... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...interrogatories to the judge. One of these was as follows: "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?" which brought out the fatal answer, that the local legislature by unfriendly legislation might effectually... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...Douglas at Freeport. The second of 109 these, viz. : ' 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 ? ' was made the subject of a conference between Mr. Lincoln and a number of his friends from Chicago,... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 410 pages
...Douglas at Freeport. The second of 109 these, viz. : ' 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 ? ' was made the subject of a conference between Mr. Lincoln and a number of his friends from Chicago,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...the Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln 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 ?"* It was necessary for Douglas, in his reply, to reconcile his principle of popular sovereignty with... | |
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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? 
