 It matters 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; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the...  The Review of Reviews - Page 456edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 782 pages
...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. ["Right, right."] 'Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature; and if... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode - 1928 - 466 pages
...problems—Mr. Douglas replied that "the people have the lawful means to introduce [slavery] or to reject it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot...unless it is supported by local police regulations." Consequently, "no matter what the decision of the Supreme Court may be on that abstract question, still... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 pages
...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. [Right, right.] Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pages
...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. (Right, right.) Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if the... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - 1989 - 340 pages
...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,...exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery can not exist a day or an hour unless it is supported by local police regulations.61 What became known... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 pages
...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. ("Right, right.") Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 pages
...State Constitution?"21 Douglas replied with care. Regardless of what the Supreme Court ruled, he said, "the people have the lawful means to introduce it...hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations."22 But Lincoln felt that even this modified version of the popular sovereignty doctrine... | |
 | Charles B. Dew - 1995 - 452 pages
...the right to southerners to take their slaves into the territories, could have no practical effect "for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or...unless it is supported by local police regulations." Since these regulations could only be established by the local legislature, Douglas maintained that... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pages
...replied that the passage of "unfriendly legislation" could keep slavery out of any territory because "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations." Consequently — as "Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois"... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 pages
...territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution The people have the lawful means to introduce...hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations."24 It was Douglas's attempt to reconcile popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision.... | |
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