 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...principles, the purpose of Congress, in passing the act, is declared in these words : "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...Territory, 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 - Slavery - 1856 - 180 pages
...principles, the purpose of Congress, in passing the act, is declared in these words : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave tho people THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA STRUGGLE. thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...deny. This report proceeds to quote further from the Kansas-Nebraska act, as follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, bat to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 176 pages
...of Congress, in passing the act, is declared in these words : " It being tho true intent and moaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclnde it therefrom, but to leave the people 94 thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1857 - 486 pages
...void for certain reasons; at the same time declaring, that it is the true intent and meaning of that act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Kansas - 1858 - 246 pages
...fommonty oaUed Oie compromise meamres, is HEREBY DECLARED INOPERATIVE and VOID ; it being the trve intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or TERRITORY, nor to exclude it Oierefrom, but to leave the people THEREOF perfectly FRFE TO FORM AND REGULATE TH«IR DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 638 pages
...clear of an unhappy and unnatural sectional conflict, that the Kansas bill declared it to be " the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...territory, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 636 pages
...unhappy and unnatural sectional conflict, that the Kansas bill declared it to be " the true in tent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into...territory, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...thirty minutes north latitude. Conforming to the cardinal nrincitiles of state eoualitv and being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | 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 FORM AND REGULATE THEIR DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS... | |
| |
Nebraska bill declared, in so many words, that it was the true intent and meaning of the act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic... 
