 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 페이지
...propounded four questions to Douglas, the second of which 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?" Mr. Lincoln had long and carefully studied the import and effect of this interrogatory, and nearly... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 페이지
...to the entire nation and the cause of human freedom : " 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 ?" In proposing this question Lincoln rejected the advice and disregarded the entreaties of his wisest... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1902 - 164 페이지
...right of a State to prohibit slavery, would he acquiesce? "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 ? " Douglas had no great difficulty with the first three questions, and the fourth — the second,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905 - 596 페이지
...ninety-three thousand — will you vote to admit them? " 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 from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 페이지
...Lincoln asked Douglas several questions, chief among them: " 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?" In answering to please Illinois Lincoln saw that Douglas must displease the south. When his friends... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 페이지
...Lincoln asked Douglas several questions, chief among them: " 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?" In answering to please Illinois Lincoln saw that Douglas must displease the south. When his friends... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, William Peterfield Trent - 1903 - 810 페이지
...Douglas this question : "Can the people of a United States territory, in any legal way, against the will of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution '! " The Republican committee managing the campaign, urged Lincoln not to ask Douglas the question.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 페이지
...thousand — would you vote to admit them? Question 2. Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...the United States, exclude slavery from its limits? Question 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States can not exclude slavery... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1911 - 332 페이지
...famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln forced Douglas to answer whether the people of a Territory could exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution. If Douglas said that they could not, he must abandon his cherished doctrine of popular sovereignty... | |
 | George Washington Platt - 1904 - 392 페이지
...the Dred Scott decision. It was plain that the question, "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 ?" could not be answered without antagonizing cither the North or the South. There was absolutely no... | |
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Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution? 
