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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... "
Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham ... - Page 55
by Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 808 pages
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The Whig Almanac and United States Register for

Almanacs, American - 1855 - 84 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...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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Echoes from the Cabinet: Comprising the Constitution of the United States ...

Missouri compromise - 1855 - 124 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...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 American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the ..., Volume 26

Almanacs, American - 1855 - 372 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperate 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,...
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The State of the Union: Being a Complete Documentary History of the Public ...

United States - 1855 - 514 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...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 American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year

Almanacs, American - 1855 - 374 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is herehy declared inoperate and void ; it heing 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 institutions in...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 5; Volume 36

United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...the good sense of the people ever permitted it to be 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 thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,...
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 594 pages
...Kansas-Nebraska act to maintain and perpetuate, as affirmed in the following provision: " 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 Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a ...

David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...without 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,...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 6; Volume 37

United States - 1856 - 642 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...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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American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in ...

Nassau William Senior - 1856 - 220 pages
...without 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,...
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