| Almanacs, American - 1855 - 384 pages
...called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inopenite and void ; it being the true intent a"hd 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... | |
| 1854 - 488 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be "the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...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... | |
| Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 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...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... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - History - 1854 - 262 pages
...fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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... | |
| Truman Smith - Kansas-Nebraska bill - 1854 - 28 pages
...the enacting clause. "Is hereby declared inoperative and void." Here the peroration. •'It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in... | |
| Missouri - 1854 - 470 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institulions in... | |
| 1854 - 136 pages
...declared "inoperative and void," hecause it was*inconsistent with the present purposes of Congress not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom. But take this apology in whatever form it may he expressed, and test its logic hy a simple process.... | |
| William Henry Seward - Kansas-Nebraska bill - 1854 - 16 pages
...declared " inoperative and void," because it was inconsistent with the present purposes of Congress not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom. But take this apology in whatever form it may be expressed, and test its logic by a simple process.... | |
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