 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
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 470 pages
...fourteenth section declares that: " It is lb« true Intent and meaning of thi> act not to legiilaie slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but 10 leave the people thereof perfe tly free to form and regulate their domestic inititutioni in tin... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 466 pages
...provides for. It is most true, air, that the fourteenth section declares that: " It is the true Intent ami meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or stair, nor to exclude it therefrom, but 10 leave the people thereof perfe<tty free to form and regulate... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 594 pages
...Kansas-Nebraska act to maintain and perpetuate, as affirmed in the following provision: " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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,... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring it to be "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,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...without precedent, and which has been aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely, " it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...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,... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1856 - 220 pages
...without precedent, and which has been aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely: "it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1856 - 102 pages
...without precedent, and which has been aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely, "it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...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,... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - History - 1856 - 454 pages
...than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring it to be ' the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures, ia hereby declared inoperative and void, 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 regulnte their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1856 - 114 pages
...without precedent, and which has been aptly called "a stump speech in its belly," namely, " 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,... | |
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