I am not generally opposed to honest acquisition of territory; and, in any given case, I would or would not oppose such acquisition accordingly as I might think such acquisition would or would not aggravate the slavery question among ourselves."-- Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p.

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[3] LINCOLN'S QUESTIONS.
"_Question_ 1.

If the people of Kansas shall, by means entirely unobjectionable in all other respects, adopt a State constitution, and ask admission into the Union under it, before they have the requisite number of inhabitants according to the English bill,--some 93,000,--will you vote to admit them?
_Q_.2.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?
_Q_.3.If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting, and following such decision as a rule of political action?
_Q_.4.Are you in favor of acquiring additional territory, in disregard of how such acquisition may affect the nation on the slavery question ?"--Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p.

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