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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? "
The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1856-1859 ... - Page 292
by Hermann Von Holst - 1889
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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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Abraham Lincoln, the First American

David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...according to the English Bill — some ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them ? "2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? " 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States can not exclude slavery from...
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Complete Works, Volume 3

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 432 pages
...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...
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Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 pages
...choose to correct me. The second interrogatory that I propounded to him was this : — Question 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution 1 " To this Judge Douglas answered that they can lawfully exclude slavery from the Territory prior...
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Abraham Lincoln, the First American

David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...according to the English Bill — some ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them ? " 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? "3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States can not exclude slavery from...
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The Presidents of the United States 1789-1894

James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 684 pages
...At Freeport, Lincoln, taking his turn, inquired of Douglas whether the people of a territory could in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution. By his reply, intimating that slavery might be excluded by unfriendly territorial legislation, Douglas...
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Complete Works, Volume 5

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...as I remember it, is: "Can the people of a United States Territory, under the Dred Scott decision, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?" He answered that they could lawfully exclude slavery from the United States Territories, notwithstanding...
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The Life of William A. Buckingham: The War Governor of Connecticut, with a ...

Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...proposed four, three of them harmless enough, but the other interpolated among the rest, was this : " Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its own limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ?" The meaning of it was : What right has...
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Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 454 pages
...correctly understood the judge on this point. To my second interrogatory, which is in these words, "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from their limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?" the judge answers that they can, and...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 438 pages
...correctly understood the judge on this point. To my second interrogatory, which is in these words, "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any...citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from their limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?" the judge answers that they can, and...
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