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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 American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year - Page 140
1855
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1866 - 1472 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...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 12; Volume 64

United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 680 pages
...the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the Government of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall he construed to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, or to affect the rights of individuals...
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The Western Journal, Volume 12

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...
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Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying ..., Part 1

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...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 5; Volume 11

Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States : Provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, as to effect the...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 5; Volume 11

Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth action of the first article of the Constitution of the United States: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, as to efK-ct the...
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Speech of Truman Smith, of Connecticut, on the Nebraska Question: Delivered ...

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...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr ...

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...
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The Western Journal and Civilian: Devoted to Agriculture ..., Volume 12

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...
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Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics ...

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...
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