. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. would answer it in such a way as towin the senatorship. The morning of the debate, while onthe way to Freeport, Lincoln read the same questions to Medill. I do not like this second question, , said Mr. Medill. The two men argued to theirjourneys end, but Lincoln was still unconvinced. Evenafter he reached Freeport several Republican leaders came tohim pleading, Do not ask that question. He was obdu-rate; and he went on the platform with a hi
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. would answer it in such a way as towin the senatorship. The morning of the debate, while onthe way to Freeport, Lincoln read the same questions to Medill. I do not like this second question, , said Mr. Medill. The two men argued to theirjourneys end, but Lincoln was still unconvinced. Evenafter he reached Freeport several Republican leaders came tohim pleading, Do not ask that question. He was obdu-rate; and he went on the platform with a higher head, ahaughtier step than his friends had noted in him before. Lin-coln was going to ruin himself, the committee said despond-ently ; one would think he did not want the senatorship. The mooted question ran in Lincolns notes: Can thepeople of a United States territory in any lawful way, againstthe wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slav-ery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Consti-tution ? Lincoln had seen the irreconcilableness of Doug-lass own measure of popular sovereignty, which declared. THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES 317 that the people of a territory should be left to regulate theirdomestic concerns in their own way subject only tothe Constitution, and the decision of the SupremeCourt in the Dred Scott case that slaves, being property,could not under the Constitution be excluded from aterritory. He knew that if Douglas said no to this question,his Illinois constituents would never return him to the Sen-ate. He believed that if he said yes, the people of the Southwould never vote for him for President of the United was willing himself to lose the senatorship in order todefeat Douglas for the Presidency in i860. I am afterlarger game; the battle of i860 is worth a hundred of this,he said confidently. The question was put, and Douglas answered it with rareartfulness. It matters not, he cried, what way the Su-preme Court may hereaf
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