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" Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... "
The Nebraska Question - Page 81
1854 - 120 pages
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1866 - 1472 pages
...slavery contained in the organic Act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be " the true intent and meaning of this Act, not to legislate...any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof •perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions...
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the ..., Volume 26

Almanacs, American - 1855 - 384 pages
...called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inopenite and void ; it being the true intent a"hd meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into...any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in...
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The Western Journal, Volume 12

1854 - 488 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in...
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Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying ..., Part 1

United States. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be "the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in...
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Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics ...

Edward Everett Hale - History - 1854 - 262 pages
...fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in...
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The Western Journal and Civilian: Devoted to Agriculture ..., Volume 12

Missouri - 1854 - 470 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institulions in...
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Speech of Truman Smith, of Connecticut, on the Nebraska Question: Delivered ...

Truman Smith - Kansas-Nebraska bill - 1854 - 28 pages
...the enacting clause. "Is hereby declared inoperative and void." Here the peroration. •'It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in...
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Freedom and Public Faith: Speech of William H. Seward, on the ..., Issue 28

William Henry Seward - Electronic books - 1854 - 16 pages
...declared " inoperative and void," because it was inconsistent with the present purposes of Congress not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom. But take this apology in whatever form it may be expressed, and test its logic by a simple process....
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year

Almanacs, American - 1855 - 374 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is herehy declared inoperate and void ; it heing the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...way, suhject only to the Constitution of the United States : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall he construed to revive or put in force any law...
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Echoes from the Cabinet: Comprising the Constitution of the United States ...

Missouri compromise - 1855 - 124 pages
...fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in...
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