 Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 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...  The Life of Stephen A. Douglas - Page 305by James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 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...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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-... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 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... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 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 State or Territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1860 - 830 pages
...the following provision : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate shivery 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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