 | United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...removed. This much-abused bill does not propose to " legislate slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people...to the Constitution of the United States." This is all any one could ask ; it is all that could be had in 1798, all that ought to be desired now, all... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 96 pages
...be " 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...only to the Constitution of the United States." This principle will surely not be controverted by any individual of any party professing devotion to popular... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - Campaign literature, 1856 - 1856 - 446 pages
...be ' 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...only to the Constitution of the United States." This principle will surely not be controverted by any individual of any party professing devotion to popular... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...to be "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...only to the Constitution of the United States/' This principle will surely not be controverted by any individual of any party professing devotion to popular... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Books - 1857 - 884 pages
...be ' 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...only to the Constitution of the United States.' This principle will surely not be controverted by any individual of any party professing devotion to popular... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
