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And Lincoln says, "But Judge,
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what's that done to your popular sovereignty?"
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And Douglas said, "Well the people can still vote,
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and if the people vote slavery out then they vote it out."
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And his fellow Southern democrats immediately started writing to him
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and wiring him and saying, "Wait a minute Stephen,
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do we live in the land of the Dred Scott decision or not?"
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It became known to Southern Democrats as the so-called
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Freeport Doctrine.
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And Douglas kept trying to dance around it, avoid it.
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In opposition to the so-called Freeport Doctrine
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and in opposition to Douglas at this Southern --