I hope Mr.Lincoln deems my answer satisfactory on that point.
[Illustration: STEPHEN A.DOUGLAS.] The remarkable theory here proposed was immediately taken up and exhaustively discussed by the leading newspapers in all parts of the Union, and thereby became definitely known under the terms "unfriendly legislation" and "Freeport doctrine." Mr.Lincoln effectually disposed of it in the following fashion in the joint debate at Alton: [Sidenote] Lincoln-Douglas Debates, pp.

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I understand I have ten minutes yet.

I will employ it in saying something about this argument Judge Douglas uses, while he sustains the Dred Scott decision, that the people of the Territories can still somehow exclude slavery.

The first thing I ask attention to is the fact that Judge Douglas constantly said, before the decision, that whether they could or not, was a question for the Supreme Court.

But after the court has made the decision he virtually says it is not a question for the Supreme Court, but for the people.