 | 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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...fifly, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it heing the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...States; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall he construed to revive or put in force any law or regulation which may have existed prior to the act... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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,... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 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...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,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows : "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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,... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - Slavery - 1860 - 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...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 Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 476 pages
...Congress. As the Kansas Nebraska Bill stood before Mr. Chase offered his amendment, it read : 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 therein perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Stephen Arnold Douglas - Slavery - 1860 - 58 pages
...the language of repeal were not left in dnnbt. It was declared, in terms, to be 'the true Intent mid meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into...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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 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 any Territory or State, nor to exclude it tJierefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic, institutions... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...Nebraska Bill itself in the language which follows: " 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 their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
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Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 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 any Territory or State, nor to exclude... 
