 | Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 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. But must not every answer given come in conflict either with... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in an}' lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution ?" * It was .necessary for Douglas, in his reply, to reconcile his principle of popular sovereignty... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...Another kindred question had already been put by Lincoln: "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? " Friends advised him not to force this, as it seemed against the immediate policy of the present campaign.... | |
 | 1896 - 628 pages
...senatorship. The mooted question ran in Lincoln's notes: " 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 ? " Lincoln had seen the. irreconcilableness of Douglas's own measure of popular sovereignty, which... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...year, thejudge thought fit to commence a process of catechizing me, and at Freeport I answered hia questions, and propounded some to him. Among others...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution f " He answered that they could lawfully exclude slavery from the United States Territories, notwithstanding... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...interrogatory I propounded to him was this: Question 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 ? To this Judge Douglas answered that they can lawfully exclude slavery from the Territory prior to... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 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...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? " 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States can not exclude slavery from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 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... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 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...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? "3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States can not exclude slavery from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...interrogatory I propounded to him was this : Question 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 ? To this' Judge Douglas answered that they can lawfully exclude slavery from the Territory prior to... | |
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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? 
