| 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 Slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, bat to leave the people thereof perfectly free to... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories - Kansas - 1856 - 20 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, bat to leave the people thereof perfectly free... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 180 pages
...1851), 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... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 808 pages
...in the bill, after declaring ti restriction of 1820 null and void, were as follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into > Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfett free to... | |
| 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... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 808 pages
...in the bill, after declaring the restriction of 1820 null and void, were as follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into tiny Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1859 - 812 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 slavery into any territory or suite, nor to* exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... | |
| 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 slavery into any state or territory, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : That if any one man choose to enslave another,...which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning ot this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom; but... | |
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