 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 United States Democratic Review - Page 5921856Full view - About this book
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1860 - 830 pages
...commonly called the compromise measures, 10 hereby declared Inoperative and void; It being tbe tro* intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery...or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form ami regulate their domestic Institutions In their own way,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...1850, commonly called the * Compromise 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 tJierefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic, institutions... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 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 form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 566 pages
...the principle of nonintervention, established by the compromise measnres of IbW, ''it being the trne intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory or state, nor to exelnde it therefrom, bnt to leave the people thereof perffctiy free to form and regnlate their domestic... | |
 | Nebraska - Law - 1860 - 248 pages
...inoperative The intent of and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act Sngssiavery.cem~ 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 Proviso as to re-... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - Campaign literature - 1860 - 160 pages
...VOTES DOWN " POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY." The true intent and meaning of the Nebraska bill was declared to be "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in iheir own way, subject... | |
 | Samuel M. Wolfe - Slavery - 1860 - 286 pages
...their own municipal institutions. The bill declared on its face that its true intent and meaning 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,... | |
 | Alfred Iverson - Slavery - 1860 - 42 pages
...of the thirty-second section of that bill, as applicable to Kansas, reads as follows: " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or Otate, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...short time afterward, by an amendment, I believe, it was provided that it must be considered " the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is HEKEBY DECLARED INOPERATIVE and VOID ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or TERRITORY, nor to exclude it Ihertfrom, but to leave the people THEREOF perfectly FREE TO... | |
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