Political speeches and debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas, 1854-1861 .. . he future will be, devoted. If there is any one principle dearerand more sacred than all others in free governments, it is that whichasserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt theirown fundamental law, and to manage and regulate their own inter-nal affairs and domestic institutions. THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION. When I found an effort being made duiing the recent sessionof Congress to force a constitution upon the people of Kansasagainst their will, and to force that State into the Union w
Political speeches and debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas, 1854-1861 .. . he future will be, devoted. If there is any one principle dearerand more sacred than all others in free governments, it is that whichasserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt theirown fundamental law, and to manage and regulate their own inter-nal affairs and domestic institutions. THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION. When I found an effort being made duiing the recent sessionof Congress to force a constitution upon the people of Kansasagainst their will, and to force that State into the Union with a consti-tution which her people had rejected by more than ten thousand, I feltbound as a man of honor and a representative of Illinois, bound byevery consideration of duty, of fidelity, and of patriotism, to resistto the utmost of my power the consummation of that fraud. Withothers, I did resist it, and resisted it successfully until the attemptwas abandoned. We forced them to refer that constitution back tothe people of Kansas, to be accepted or rejected as they shall de- [60].
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