If so, the device proved ineffectual.

The President and his partisans were determined to put the author of the "Freeport doctrine" under public ban, and to that end, when Congress organized, one of the first acts of the Senate majority was to depose Douglas from his place as chairman of the Committee on Territories, which he had held in that body for eleven years.
-- -------- [1] A local nickname by which the southern or pro-slavery portion of Illinois was familiarly known.
[2] DOUGLAS'S QUESTIONS AND LINCOLN'S ANSWERS.
"_Question_ 1.

'I desire to know whether Lincoln to-day stands, as he did in 1854, in favor of the unconditional repeal of the fugitive-slave law ?' _Answer_.

I do not now, nor ever did, stand in favor of the unconditional repeal of the fugitive-slave law.
_Q_.2.

'I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day, as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more slave-States into the Union even if the people want them ?' _A_.