 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 694 Seiten
...prior to the formation of a State constitution?" Douglas answered this by saying that in his opinion, "the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution," and then proceeded to elaborate his theory of ' ' unfriendly legislation ' ' which he had advocated... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - 1916 - 86 Seiten
...as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times, from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution." And a little further on he assumed to explain that the people of a territory could control slavery,... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 566 Seiten
...sovereignty with this far-reaching decision. In his answer, therefore, Douglas said: " In my opinion the people of a territory can by lawful means exclude...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... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 Seiten
...emphatically, as Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution." Naturally, the effect was disastrous to Douglas's logic. He had unwittingly permitted himself to be... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1926 - 598 Seiten
...she has enough for a free State." To the second question, said Douglas, I answer emphatically that " the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude...limits prior to the formation of a State constitution "; that " it matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question... | |
 | Matilda Gresham - 1919 - 494 Seiten
...as Mr Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude...I had answered that question over and over again. He heard me argue the Nebraska BiU on that principle all over the State in 1854, in I8SS, and in 1856,... | |
 | Louis Howland - 1920 - 422 Seiten
...as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1920 - 362 Seiten
...the people of a Territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State constitution? I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois,... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 704 Seiten
...slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a state constitution?" Douglas. — "In my opinion the people of a territory can. by lawful means, exclude slavery from ttnir limits prior to the formation of a state constitution. Slaver'' cannot exist a day or an hour... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1921 - 292 Seiten
...as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude...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... | |
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I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state Constitution. 
