 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...campaign he urged Douglas to answer this question : " 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 ? " When his friends objected to having this point pressed, Lincoln replied that, whatever might be... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 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... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...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, "It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 290 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 declared... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 298 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 declared... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - Statesmen - 1900 - 576 pages
...in the debate at Freeport, Lincoln put this question: " 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 Douglas answered that it did not matter what the Supreme Court might decide as to the... | |
 | Winston Churchill - Fiction - 1901 - 576 pages
...until it broke on the very edge of that vast audience. " 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 out, at last, irrevocably writ in the recording book of History, for better, for worse. Beyond... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 464 pages
...ninetythree 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... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...he prepared, among others, the following question : " 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?" If this were answered " No," it would alienate the citizens of Illinois. If it were answered "Yes,"... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...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 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 can not 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? 
