 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 Annals of Kansas - Page 117by Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 691 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 pages
...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 their domestic institutions in their own way."... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 818 pages
...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 their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - 1967 - 630 pages
...elementary principle of self-government; declaring it to be "true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to lea_ve the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...majority shall govern — to tie settlement of the question of domestic Slavery in the territories! Congress is neither ' to legislate Slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, bnt to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
 | Lincoln County (Mo.) - 1888 - 662 pages
...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 therefromi but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
 | Genealogy - 1881 - 1148 pages
...explained, however, by the following amendment: "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 their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...nonintervention. One clause declared that the "true intent and meaning" of the act as a whole was "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 their own way,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows: "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 firm and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...Nebraska Bill, which Judge Douglas has quoted: "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 their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Glenn W. Fisher - Business & Economics - 1996 - 266 pages
...repealed that provision and stated: it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislature 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 their own way,... | |
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