...the right to southerners to take their slaves into the territories, could have no practical effect "for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or...unless it is supported by local police regulations." Since these regulations could only be established by the local legislature, Douglas maintained that...

...replied that the passage of "unfriendly legislation" could keep slavery out of any territory because "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations." Consequently — as "Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois"...

...means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution The people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it...hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations."24 It was Douglas's attempt to reconcile popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision....

...abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a territory under the constitution; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it...police regulations. Those police regulations can only he established by the local legislature; and if the people are opposed to slavery, they will elect...

...trusting in the intuitive good sense of public opinion, Senator Douglas pointed out in the Freeport debate "that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere,...unless it is supported by local police regulations." Therefore, he denounced the unnecessary agitation of the slavery issue. It impeded territorial expansion,...

...abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a territory under the constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it...unless it is supported by local police regulations. These police regulations can only be established by the local legislature, and if the people are opposed...

...sovereignty. Douglas responded that the people could exclude slavery by failing to pass laws to protect it: "Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations." With this declaration Douglas widened his split with the Buchanan administration, which held that the...

...could do so, in spite of the Dred Scott decision; they could do so by "unfriendly legislation," since "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations." This doctrine satisfied Illinois, and Douglas won his election to the Senate; but it offended the South,...

...abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a territory under the constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it...unless it is supported by local police regulations." What this accomplished was to keep Douglas's quarrel with Buchanan at center stage, where no Democratic...

...prohibit slavery if Congress had no power to do so. Douglas answered precisely as Lincoln had expected. "Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations," Douglas replied coolly. "Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer [that question] a hundred times from every...