He dissented from him, and now he would like to know from other Senators from the North what they would do: "If the Territorial Legislature refuses to act, will you act?
If it pass unfriendly acts, will you pass friendly?
If it pass laws hostile to slavery, will you annul them and substitute laws favoring slavery in their stead ?...

I would rather," concluded he "see the Democratic party sunk, never to be resurrected, than to see it successful only that one portion of it might practice a fraud on another." [Sidenote] Brown, Senate Speech, Feb.

28, 1859.

"Globe," pp.

1246-7.
Douglas met the issue, and defended his Freeport doctrine without flinching.