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... American History - Page 347by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1909 - 565 pagesFull view - About this book
| Nassau William Senior - Slavery - 1856 - 190 pages
...precedent, and which has been aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely : " it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
| Rushmore G. Horton - History - 1856 - 454 pages
...than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring it to be ' the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1856 - 888 pages
...commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the tnic intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery...or State, 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 Sheffie Geyer - Kansas - 1856 - 40 pages
...1850, commonly ealled the coinproiniw measures-, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it heh,g the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, hut to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institrrtrons in... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 176 pages
...Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meanin z 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 their own way,... | |
| John Jasiel Perry - Campaign literature - 1856 - 16 pages
...declaring the Missouri Compromise a inoperative and void," the same section goes on to say: '" It being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
| Campaign literature - 1856 - 96 pages
...of self-government ; declaring it 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 thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
| 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... | |
| Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1856 - 40 pages
...Constitution of the United States. Each recognizes the right of the people thereof, while a Territory, to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and to be received into the Union, so soon as they should... | |
| 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... | |
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