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" 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 Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the ... - Page 206
by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1912 - 284 pages
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Helper's Impending Crisis Dissected

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,...
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The Candidature for the Presidency in Eight Years of Stephen A. Douglas: His ...

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...
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Speech of Hon. Alfred Iverson, of Georgia, on Our Territorial Policy ...

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...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...1S50, 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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

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...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon ...

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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Life of Stephen A. Douglas: United States Senator from Illinois

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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Life of Stephen A. Douglas, United States Senator from Illinois: With His ...

Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 486 pages
...1850, commonly called ihe Compromise measures, is HEUEBY DECLAEED INOPEEATIVE and VOID; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or TEEEITOEY, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people THEEEOF perfectly FEEE TO...
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The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade: Ancient and Modern; the Forms of ...

William O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 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 said territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free...
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