 ... (It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution ; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please,...  Abraham Lincoln: With Twenty-four Illustrations - Page 120by William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1925 - 578 pages
...sovereignty. Douglas, was compelled to hedge in the answer which he promptly gave: "It matters not wjiat the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether or not slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution; the people have the lawful... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...and in 1856, and he has no excuse for pretending to be in doubt as to my position on that question. It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter...unless it is supported by local police regulations. [Right, right.] Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if the... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution. ... It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter...not go into a territory under the constitution, the it in one way or another for more than a year: Congressional prohibition having been voided by the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...and in 1856, and he has no excuse for pretending to be in doubt as to my position on that question. It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter...unless it is supported by local police regulations. (Right, right.) Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if the... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 pages
...hundred times, the people of any territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits. ... It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter...exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery can not exist a day or an hour unless it is supported by local police regulations.61 What became known... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...and in 1856, and he has no excuse for pretending to be in doubt as to my position on that question. It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter...unless it is supported by local police regulations. ("Right, right.") Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if... | |
 | Michael F. Holt - History - 1992 - 384 pages
...at Freeport, Illinois, Douglas reiterated that "it matters not what way the Supreme Court may . . . decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory. . . . [T]he people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please." Now furious at... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - Social Science - 1993 - 380 pages
...State Constitution?"21 Douglas replied with care. Regardless of what the Supreme Court ruled, he said, "the people have the lawful means to introduce it...hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations."22 But Lincoln felt that even this modified version of the popular sovereignty doctrine... | |
 | Charles B. Dew - History - 1995 - 452 pages
...the right to southerners to take their slaves into the territories, could have no practical effect "for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or...unless it is supported by local police regulations." Since these regulations could only be established by the local legislature, Douglas maintained that... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...replied that the passage of "unfriendly legislation" could keep slavery out of any territory because "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations." Consequently — as "Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois"... | |
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