[ [1]] A local nickname by which the southern or pro-slavery portion of Illinois was familiarly known.
[ [2]] DOUGLAS'S QUESTIONS AND LINCOLN'S ANSWERS.
"Question 1. 'I desire to know whether Lincoln to-day stands, as he did in 1854, in favor of the unconditional repeal of the fugitive-slave law?'
Answer. I do not now, nor ever did, stand in favor of the unconditional repeal of the fugitive-slave law.
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?'
A. I do not now, nor ever did, stand pledged against the admission of any more slave-States into the Union.
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?'
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.
Q. 4. 'I want to know whether he stands to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia?'