...slavery may go in under the Constitution or not, the people of a territory have the lawful means to admit or exclude it as they please for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless supported by local police regulations, furnishing remedies and means of enforcing the right of holding...

...reconcile the Dred Scott decision with his "squatter sovereignty " theory. He then made Douglas admit that "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere...unless it is supported by local police regulations." Douglas said that the Dred Scott decision could not preserve slavery in a territory if the people voted...

...legislation": That the people of a Territory " have the lawful means to introduce or exclude slavery as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot...unless it is supported by local police regulations. If the people are opposed to slavery they will of slavery and to the spread of slavery he was indifferent,...

...what the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether or not slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution;...unless it is supported by local police regulations." The importance of Douglas' Freeport Doctrine did not lie in its novelty for Douglas had foreseen the...

...wjiat the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether or not slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution;...unless it is supported by local police regulations." The importance of Douglas' Freeport Doctrine did not lie in its novelty for Douglas had foreseen the...

...means to introduce or exclude slavery as they choose, for the reason that slavery cannot exist unless supported by local police regulations. Those police...and, if the people are opposed to slavery they will, by unfriendly legislation, effectually prevent its introduction." Later and after the presidential...

...what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to abstract questions as to whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution. The people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please." This was an adroit piece of sophism which appears on the face of it...

...not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution...unless it is supported by local police regulations. 1 Those police regulations can only be established by the local Legislature ; and, if the people are...

...Charleston split on the slavery question. The South, remembering Douglas's admission in debate with Lincoln that "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere...unless it is supported by local police regulations." totally repudiated him and his squatter sovereignty, whereas Douglas was equally determined to stick...

...from his party by repudiating a dictum of the Supreme Court. Very neatly Douglas found a way out. ' Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations,' and if a territorial legislature fail to pass a black code, they will effectually keep slavery out.1...