The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address

[JMadonna]

Bill,
Once again you've given me more to read, thank you for that. I'm not familiar with Lincoln's refusal of Taney's opinion in the compromise efforts so I'll have to get Cooper's book and wait for your revised dictionary.

I guess I don't understand what the refusal was all about since the Kansas-Nebraska act effectively made Taney's opinion moot. Did they want Lincoln to denounce Douglas' Freeport Doctrine which was a workaround?