| James Grant Wilson - 1894 - 684 páginas
...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 páginas
...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1895 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
| Alexander Johnston - 1896 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1896 - 788 páginas
...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 - 1896 - 436 páginas
...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 - 1897 - 344 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry William Elson - 1899 - 424 páginas
...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... | |
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