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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 Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States - Page 184
by John Codman Hurd - 1862
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 97

Books - 1856 - 836 pages
...and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, 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,...
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Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life. Including a Full View of Its ...

Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson - Abolitionists - 1856 - 402 pages
...of our republic." In the organic act of the territory, section 14, is the following: " 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,...
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The Congressional Globe

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,...
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Speech of Hon. H.S. Geyer, of Missouri, on the Kansas Controversy: Delivered ...

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...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ...

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,...
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Freedom National, Slavery Sectional: Speech of Hon. John J. Perry, of Maine ...

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...
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The Republican Scrap Book: Containing the Platforms, and a Choice Selection ...

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,...
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Democratic Speeches on Kansas: Pamphlet Vol.], Volume 1

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...
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Kansas Affairs in the Senate: Minority Report

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...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ...

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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