...than we do now!" It is this : Does the proper division of local from federal authority, or any thing in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in OUT Federal Territories f Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative....

...question fully written out, which Senator Douglas thought these men understood better than we do, was : " Does the proper division of local from federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid the federal government control as to slavery in our federal territories?" From this point Mr. Lincoln...

...showed that the thirty-nine men who framed the Constitution were " our fathers." It is this: "Does the Constitution forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal territories ?" He then went into a full historical argument on the subject, presenting every recorded act of the...

...showed that the thirty-nine men who framed the Constitution were " our fathers." It is this: "Does the Constitution forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal territories?" He then went into a full historical argument on the subject, presenting every recorded act of the Fathers...

...Lincoln to McNeil!, April 6th, 1860. Lamon, " Life of Abraham Lincoln," p. 441. VOL. XXXIV.— 72. " Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...to slavery in our Federal Territories ? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial...

...thirty-nine," for the present, as being " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live." What is the question which, according to the text, those fathers understood just as well, and even better than wo do now ? It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or any thing in...

...even the two who voted against the prohibition as having done so because, in their understanding, any proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The remaining sixteen...

...even the two who voted against the prohibition as having done so because, in their understanding, any proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The remaining sixteen...

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...and even better than we do now." Lincoln defined " this question," with a lawyer's exactness, thus : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority,...to slavery in our Federal Territories ? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial...