 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...under which we live." What is the question which, according to the text, those fathers under stood "just as well, and even better than we do now ?" It...the proper division of local from federal authority, 01 3.1 y thing in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control a* to slavery in our Federal... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 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, or anything in the Constitution fofbid our federal Government to control, as to slavery, in federal territories ? Upon this Senator... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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 we do now? THE GREAT ISSUE, i ' It is this: Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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 control as to slavery in federal territory. The remaining sixteen of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 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... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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 we do now? THE GREAT ISSUE. "It is this: Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything... | |
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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... 
