| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...individually, so far as ascertainable from their subsequent acts, regarded the question at issue, namely, " Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...control as to slavery in our Federal Territories?" Twenty-one of the thirty-nine, as he points out in detail, sustained by their recorded acts the position... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 362 pages
...for the present, as 15 being " our fathers who framed the government under which we live." What is the question which, according to the text, those fathers...It is this: Does the proper division of local from 2^ Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, \ forbid our Federal Government to control as... | |
| Frances Melville Perry - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1906 - 252 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...slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial form... | |
| Theology - 1906 - 336 pages
...the right of our Federal Government to control slavery in the Federal Territories. The question \vtas this : — " Does the proper division of local from...in our Federal Territories ? '' Upon this Douglas answered, " Yes, they do so forbid." And to fortify his claim he added these words: — " Our fathers,... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...Lincoln made it the starting-point for a discussion of the understanding of the fathers of this question: "Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...control as to slavery in our Federal Territories?" Passing by the element of morality, of economics, of politics, of climate, of expediency, as to slavery,... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...discussion of the understanding of the fathers of this question: "Does the proper division of locdl from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution,...control as to slavery in our Federal Territories?" Passing by the element of morality, of economics, of politics, of climate, of expediency, as to slavery,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 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 - 1906 - 464 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 - 1907 - 738 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 - 1907 - 336 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. r" The remaining sixteen... | |
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