 | Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...claim. He did not even flatly deny that the decision and the doctrine contradicted each other, buc was satisfied with pointing out that the incompetency...Constitution?" To refuse an answer was to admit defeat. But must not every answer given come in conflict either with the Dred Scott decision or with the doctrine... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 568 pages
...to one, Douglas enunciated what is known as the Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in any...prior to the formation of a State constitution?"* It was necessary for Douglas, in his reply, to reconcile his principle of popular sovereignty with... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...wrote the four questions which he propounded to Douglas at Freeport. The second of 109 these, viz. : ' Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? ' was made the subject of a conference between Mr. Lincoln and a number of his friends from Chicago,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...to one, Douglas enunciated what is known as the Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in any...prior to the formation of a State constitution?"* It was necessary for Douglas, in his reply, to reconcile his principle of popular sovereignty with... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...English bill — some ninety-three thousand — will he vote to admit them? 2. Can the people of the United States Territory, in any lawful way, against...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...four interrogatories to the judge. One of these was as follows: "Can the people of a United-States territory in any lawful way, against the wish of any...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution?" which brought out the fatal answer, that the local legislature by unfriendly legislation might effectually... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in an}' lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution ?" * It was .necessary for Douglas, in his reply, to reconcile his principle of popular sovereignty... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...to one, Douglas enunciated what is known as the Freeport doctrine. The question of Lincoln was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in any...wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slaverv from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution '("' It was necessary for Douglas,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...question." But he never composed his reply. Another kindred question had already been put by Lincoln : " Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits, prior to the formation of a State Constitution? " Friends advised him not to force this, as it seemed against the immediate policy of the present campaign.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...does not now choose to correct me. The second interrogatory I propounded to him was this: Question 2. Can the people of a United States Territory in any...prior to the formation of a State constitution ? To this Judge Douglas answered that they can lawfully exclude slavery from the Territory prior to the... | |
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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? 
