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.