 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...showed that the thirty-nine men who framed the Constitution were " our fathers." It is this: "Does the Constitution forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal territories ?" He then went into a full historical argument on the subject, presenting every recorded act of the... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...showed that the thirty-nine men who framed the Constitution were " our fathers." It is this: "Does the Constitution forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal territories?" He then went into a full historical argument on the subject, presenting every recorded act of the Fathers... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...Lincoln to McNeil!, April 6th, 1860. Lamon, " Life of Abraham Lincoln," p. 441. VOL. XXXIV.— 72. " Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...to slavery in our Federal Territories ? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...thirty-nine," for the present, as being " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live." What is the question which, according to the text, those fathers understood just as well, and even better than wo do now ? It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or any thing in... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...even the two who voted against the prohibition as having done so because, in their understanding, any proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The remaining sixteen... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...even the two who voted against the prohibition as having done so because, in their understanding, any proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The remaining sixteen... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 528 pages
...and even better than we do now." Lincoln defined " this question," with a lawyer's exactness, thus : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...to slavery in our Federal Territories ? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 526 pages
...and even better than we do now." Lincoln defined " this question," with a lawyer's exactness, thus : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...as to slavery in our Federal Territories? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 522 pages
...and even better than we do now." Lincoln denned " this question," with a lawyer's exactness, thus : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories 1 Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...well, and even better than we do now." The question referred to by Douglas, he stated concisely as : " Does the proper division of local from federal authority,...our federal Government to control, as to slavery, in federal territories ? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmation and the Republicans the negative.... | |
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It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans... 
