Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

* Freeport Doctrine

Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine was that residents of a territory could keep slavery out by refusing to pass a slave code and other laws needed to protect slavery.

Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine, and the fact that he helped defeat the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution, made Douglas unpopular in the South, which led to the 1860 split of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern wings.

The schism in the Democratic Party over the Lecompton Constitution and Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine caused Southern " fire-eaters " to oppose front runner Stephen A. Douglas ' bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine alleged that the antislavery majority of Kansans could thwart the Dred Scott decision that allowed slavery by withholding legislation for a slave code and other laws needed to protect slavery.

Douglas alienated Southerners with this Freeport Doctrine, which damaged his chances of winning the Presidency in 1860.

By defeating a pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution and advocating a Freeport Doctrine to stop slavery in Kansas where the majority were anti-slavery, he lost the support of the South.

Lincoln said that Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine was a do-nothing sovereignty that was " as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.

* Freeport Doctrine

In response, Douglas came up with what is known as the Freeport Doctrine.

In 1858, Douglas had narrowly won Senate re-election by professing the Freeport Doctrine, a de facto rejection of Dred Scott.

However, the Freeport Doctrine alienated many Southern Democrats.

Douglas had actually stated the essence of the doctrine previous to the debate at Freeport, but its prominent public assertion at Freeport contributed ( along with other political disputes, such as over the Lecompton Constitution ) to antagonizing those in the Southern United States who were demanding ever-increasing protections for slavery, and who subsequently insisted on the repudiation of the Freeport Doctrine ( i. e. the passage of a congressional Slave Code for the territories ) in order to block Douglas ' presidential bid in 1860.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay, a teacher of English, and Ronald Flockhart, an executive for Kraft Foods.

Daniel Marshall was a supporter of the American Union and a staunch Democrat, and took his son to the Lincoln and Douglas debate in Freeport in 1858.

Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, was established as a free trade zone in the 1950s and became the country's second city.

Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island in Freeport, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1967.

A new band, Pink Punk, was formed and in 2006 the first album, Zoo Politics, emerged as an independent release on Freeport Records.

Then from 1903 through 1930, the village was served by the Rockford & Interurban RR., an electric line with frequent passenger service from Rockford or Pecatonica and Freeport.

Port Sulphur was originally a typical company town, with its residents and civic life closely tied to the Freeport Sulphur Company.

The large brick Plaquemines Parish Government building located on LA. HWY 23 in town next to the former Freeport property was originally the Freeport Sulphur Company administration building.

The golf course land located on LA. HWY 23, just south of the former Freeport property, was originally a neighborhood of the company townsite.

Originally the northwest portion of Freeport, it was first settled in 1680.

Phelps-Dodge was acquired by international mining firm Freeport-McMoRan in March 2007, and operations at the Chino and Tyrone operations are continuing under the Freeport name.

In 1819, Conesus was formed from parts of the Towns of Groveland and Livonia as the " Town of Freeport.

Originally called Freeport, when the construction of a mill was proposed about 1868, the community changed its name to Milltown, which became Milton by 1873.

The road between Pittsburgh and Freeport was filled by farmers driving cattle to market in Pittsburgh, peddler wagons taking goods to country housewives, businessmen going to Pittsburgh, and officials going to court for the day.

Freeport was a port on the former Pennsylvania Canal.

Freeport was formerly home to Freeport Elementary School on High Street, where all borough students attended kindergarten through 6th grade.

Freeport was officially founded in November 1912 by the Freeport Sulphur Company.

Freeport was recognized as a National Main Street City in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

He was the president of The Second National Bank of Freeport.

The city of Freeport, located inside the Triangle, operates a major shipyard and an airport that handles 50, 000 flights annually and is visited by over a million tourists a year.

Most of the world's synthetic supply of carotene comes from a manufacturing complex located in Freeport, Texas and owned by DSM.

Malta's primary international connections are the airport at Gudja and by sea mainly the Grand Harbour, and the Malta Freeport ( 3rd largest transshipment port in the Mediterranean Sea.

As the game begins, the player is placed into the shoes of John Blade as he responds to a full scale bank heist and hostage situation perpetrated by a well known Freeport criminal boss, Antonio Mancini.

The town and area are primarily populated by ranchers and miners ( especially from the Freeport McMoran copper and silver mines in SE Arizona and SW New Mexico ).

Highlights include the Rivertown Repertory Theatre, Kenner's Heritage Park, Kenner's planetarium & science museum ( sponsored by Freeport McMoran ), two fine dining establishments, and a cafe.

* The southwest portion of the township is served by the Freeport ZIP code, 49325.

Freeport's fire and rescue coverage is provided by Freeport Volunteer Fire Department, located at 400 Market Street.

Medical coverage is provided by Freeport Emergency Medical Services, which operates along with the fire department.

Lorenzo by Judge James Barr in 1843 – 44, he choose the location due to the nearby junction of two important early stage coach routes, the east-west route from Indiana, Pennsylvania to Butler, Pennsylvania and the north-south Route from Freeport, Pennsylvania to Emlenton, Pennsylvania.

Freeport is in the 14th congressional district, and is represented by Congressman Ron Paul.

However, by 1929, that population had grown to 3, 500, and to 4, 100 by 1939, influencing a steady increase of economic expansion in Freeport.

The Freeport Main Street Program is a subprogram of The National Trust for Historic Preservation and in turn the Texas Historical Commission and is supervised by an advisory board.

* Historic materials about Freeport, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

* Municipal government adopts pretzel logo as trademark by the City of Freeport, Illinois, also known as " Pretzel City USA ".

* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir, 1879, reprinted by Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York, ( 1972 ), ISBN 0-8369-6775-5, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-38358.