Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas. 1897.
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| Q. 2. “I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day, as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more Slave States into the Union, even if the people want them?” | 6 |
| A. I do not now, nor ever did, stand pledged against the admission of any more Slave States into the Union. | 7 |
| Q. 3. “I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union with such a Constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make?” | 8 |
| A. I do not stand pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union, with such a Constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make. | 9 |
| Q. 4. “I want to know whether he stands to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia?” | 10 |
| A. I do not stand to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. | 11 |
| Q. 5. “I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to the prohibition of the slave-trade between the different States?” | 12 |
| A. I do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the slavetrade between the different States. | 13 |
| Q. 6. “I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, North as well as South of the Missouri Compromise line?” | 14 |
| A. I am impliedly, if not expressly, pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories. | 15 |
| Q. 7. “I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to the acquisition of any new territory unless slavery is first prohibited therein?” | 16 |
| A. I am not generally opposed to honest acquisition of territory; and, in any given case, I would or would not oppose such acquisition, accordingly as I might think such acquisition would or would not aggravate the slavery question among ourselves. | 17 |
| Now, my friends, it will be perceived upon an examination of these questions and answers, that so far I have only answered that I was not pledged to this, that or the other. The Judge has not framed his interrogatories to ask me anything more than this, and I have answered in strict accordance with the interrogatories, | |