 | David P. Currie - 2007 - 341 페이지
...Jul 10, 1858, id at 26, 34-36. Douglas's conception of self-government, Lincoln had said earlier, was "[t]hat if any one man, choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object." Speech at Springfield, Jim 16, 1858, id at 1, 2. Or, as he would soon say, "[w]hen [Douglas] says he... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 페이지
...rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this: That if any one man, choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object. Lincoln then addressed fears that Douglas was too powerful an adversary. (The comparison of a living... | |
 | David A. Reidy, Walter J. Riker - 2008 - 259 페이지
...rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this: That if any one man choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object [Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act] The people were to be left "perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution."... | |
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It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject... 
