tand 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?"

A. I do not stand to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia.

Q. 5. "I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to the
prohibition of the slave-trade between the different States?"

A. I do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the slave-trade
between the different States.

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?"

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.

Q. 7. "I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to the acquisition
of any new territory unless slavery is first prohibited therein?"

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.

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, and have answered truly
that I am not _pledged_ at all upon any of the points to which I have
answered. But I am not disposed to hang upon the exact form of his
interrogatory. I am really disposed to take up at least some of these
questions, and state what I really think upon them.

As to the first one, in regard to the Fugitive Slave law, I have never
hesitated to say, and I do not now hesitate to say, that I think, under
the Constitution of the United States, the people of the Southern
States are entitled to a Congressional Fugitive Slave law. Having said