...division of local from Federal authority, or any thing in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? Upon this, Douglas holds the afïïrmative, and Republicans the negative. This affirmative and denial form an issue ; and this issue,...

...instrument may be fairly called our fathers who framed that part of the present Government. . . . What is the question which, according to the text, those fathers...in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government control as to slavery in our Federal Territories? Upon this, Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans...

...pleasantries and posed the rhetorical question, "Does the proper division of local from federal authorities, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our federal...control as to slavery in our Federal Territories?" that a reporter for Greeley's Tribune noticed how "his face lights with an inward fire." No one was...

...Government under which we live." What is the question which, according to the text, those fathers understood as well, and even better than we do now? It is this:...the affirmative, and Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial form an issue; and this issue — this question — is precisely what the text...

...authority regarding slavery in the territories? It is worth looking again at the question at issue: Does the proper division of local from federal authority,...control as to slavery in our Federal Territories? (3. 523) Lincoln's formulation of the issue is meticulously nonpartisan, yet aggressively analytic....

..."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...to slavery in our Federal Territories? Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial form...

...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...proper division of local from federal authority, or any thing in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government control as to slavery in our Federal Territories...

...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...