. Abraham Lincoln; a history . ....jJjK^ , M. M \si)N. PERSONAL LIBERTY BILLS 33 CUAP. II. Lincoln- Douf^las Debates, p. 89. tionable features of the personal liberty bills hadset in; and movements to that end were in pro-gress in the Legislatures of several Northern important than all was the fact that Mr. Lin-coln himself held a proper fugitive-slave law to beconstitutional. In the Freeport debate he thusanswered Douglass question on this point: Ihave never hesitated to say, and I do not nowhesitate to say, that I think, under the Consti-tution of the United States, the pe
. Abraham Lincoln; a history . ....jJjK^ , M. M \si)N. PERSONAL LIBERTY BILLS 33 CUAP. II. Lincoln- Douf^las Debates, p. 89. tionable features of the personal liberty bills hadset in; and movements to that end were in pro-gress in the Legislatures of several Northern important than all was the fact that Mr. Lin-coln himself held a proper fugitive-slave law to beconstitutional. In the Freeport debate he thusanswered Douglass question on this point: Ihave never hesitated to say, and I do not nowhesitate to say, that I think, under the Consti-tution of the United States, the people of theSouthern States are entitled to a Congressionalfugitive-slave law; further than that, I think itshould have been framed so as to be free from someof the objections that pertain to it, without lesseningits efficiency. And the opinion was quite as dis-tinctly reiterated in his inaugural address. Butwhile willing to accord to the South this constitu-tional right, he did not forget the rights due to allfree citizens of
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