 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them ? "2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Campaign debates - 1895 - 584 pages
...ninety-three thousand, — will you vote to admit them? Q 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1896 - 788 pages
...of his friends and advisers, too hazardous. It was : " Can the people of a United States Territory in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution ? " " Lincoln had seen the irreconcilableness of Douglas' own measure of popular sovereignty, which... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 436 pages
...ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them ? Q. 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 452 pages
...ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them ? Q. 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...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... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - Historiography - 1897 - 344 pages
...fall into both. The pivotal question of the set was : " Can the people of a United States territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution ? " " It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether... | |
 | 1897 - 638 pages
...debate at Freeport, 111. , put this question to Douglas: "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?" If Douglas said no, he would never be returned to the Senate by his Illinois constituency : if he said... | |
 | Henry William Elson - United States - 1899 - 424 pages
...The second of these, as follows, was the fatal one : " Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution ? " It is necessary to explain here that the clause in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill which dealt with this... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...campaign he urged Douglas to answer this question : " Can the people of the United States territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits, prior to the formation of a state constitution ? " When his friends objected to having this point pressed, Lincoln replied that, whatever might be... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...campaign he urged Douglas to answer this question : " Can the people of the United States territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits, prior to the formation of a state constitution ? " When his friends objected to having this point pressed, Lincoln replied that, whatever might be... | |
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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? 
