 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...principles, the purpose of Congress in passing the Act is declared in these words : — ' It being the true intent and meaning of this Act not to legislate slavery into ' State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof per' fectly free... | |
 | William D. Jones - United States - 1864 - 276 pages
...inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with Slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, (commonly...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...inconsistent with the principle of Non-intervention by Congress with Slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850 (commonly...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... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...inconsistent with the principle of ISTon-Intervention by Congress with Slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850 (commonly...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... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 pages
...inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...inconsistent with the principle of Non-Iutervention by Congress with Slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850 (commonly...Compromise measures), is hereby declared inoperative nnd void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 864 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows: "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into afcy Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1865 - 680 pages
...preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6th, 1820," &c. "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into," &c., " but to leave the people thereof free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 pages
...inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly...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... | |
 | George Lunt - History - 1866 - 584 pages
...inconsistent with the principles of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly...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... | |
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March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative... 
