 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1920 - 672 pages
...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,...unless it is supported by local police regulations." This was the celebrated "Freeport Doctrine."1 453. The Southern Radicals repudiate Douglas. Douglas... | |
 | Smith Burnham - United States - 1920 - 704 pages
...lawful means, exclude slavery from ttnir limits prior to the formation of a state constitution. Slaver'' cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations. If the people are opposed to slavery they will elect representatives to the local legislature who will,... | |
 | Winston Churchill - United States - 1922 - 570 pages
...not go into a territory under the Constitution. The people have the lawful means to introduce 5 or to exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an bour anywhere unless it is supported by the local police regulations." Judge Douglas, uneasy will you... | |
 | Freeport. Chamber of commerce. Citizens committee - Freeport (Ill.) - 1922 - 56 pages
...the lawful means to exclude it or to introduce it as they please, for the reason that slavery can not exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations." The reply of Douglas in response to Lincoln's question before 15,000 people in Freeport August 27,... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1923 - 674 pages
...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... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - United States - 1923 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1924 - 578 pages
...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,... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1925 - 578 pages
...question whether or not slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it...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... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1925 - 576 pages
...question whether or not slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it...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... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Political parties - 1925 - 652 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
