 | David Zarefsky - History - 1993 - 324 pages
...election.73 Considerable folklore has developed around the second Freeport question, in which Lincoln asked, "Can the people of a United States territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution?" Legend has it that, although advised against asking this question, Lincoln did so anyway, throwing... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...interrogatories of his own. The second of these would have a major place in succeeding encounters. It reads: "Can the people of a United States territory, in any...States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formulation of a state constitution?" Before asking the question, Lincoln had sought the advice of... | |
 | Peter W. Schramm, Bradford P. Wilson - History - 1993 - 286 pages
...for honorable ends. In the 1858 Illinois Senate contest, Abraham Lincoln asked Stephen A. Douglas: "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 prior to the formation... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - Social Science - 1993 - 380 pages
...attacked. "Can the people of a United States Territory," he asked his opponent, "in any lawful way . . . exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?"21 Douglas replied with care. Regardless of what the Supreme Court ruled, he said, "the... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...the English bill? Second, could "the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, . . . exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" Third, would Douglas acquiesce in and follow a decision of the Supreme Court declaring that states... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 pages
...Freeport, he addressed a series of questions to the Democratic candidate, the second of which asked, "Can the people of a United States territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution?" Douglas' reply was immediate and unhesitating. While Lincoln had not mentioned the Dred Scott decision,... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...as a state." Then I asked my own interrogatories, calculated to hurt Douglas in Free-Soil Illinois: "Can the people of a United States territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution? "If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that states cannot exclude slavery from their... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...inhabitants according to the English bill -some ninety-three thousand-will you vote to admit them ? Q. 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...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 from... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...of the four "interrogatories" propounded by Lincoln to Douglas in the second of their joint debates: "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" According to the legend that grew up around the Lincoln-Douglas debates, this was a sudden and unexpected... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...number of issues. Lincoln posed four questions for Douglas at Freeport on August 27. One of them asked, "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the will of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of... | |
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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? 
