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 811854 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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