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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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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

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...
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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...being inconsistent with that principle, and declaring that it was the true intent and meaning of the 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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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 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 Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exelude It therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic...
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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 566 pages
...the principle of nonintervention, established by the compromise measnres of IbW, ''it being the trne intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory or state, nor to exelnde it therefrom, bnt to leave the people thereof perffctiy free to form and regnlate their domestic...
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The Candidature for the Presidency in Eight Years of Stephen A. Douglas: His ...

Benjamin Franklin Butler - Campaign literature - 1860 - 160 pages
...VOTES DOWN " POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY." The true intent and meaning of the Nebraska bill was declared to be "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in iheir own way, subject...
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Helper's Impending Crisis Dissected

Samuel M. Wolfe - Slavery - 1860 - 286 pages
...their own municipal institutions. The bill declared on its face that its true intent and meaning was ' 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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Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the ... Session of the ...

Nebraska - Law - 1860 - 248 pages
...inoperative The intent of and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act Sngssiavery.cem~ 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 Proviso as to re-...
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Speech of Hon. Alfred Iverson, of Georgia, on Our Territorial Policy ...

Alfred Iverson - Slavery - 1860 - 42 pages
...of the thirty-second section of that bill, as applicable to Kansas, reads as follows: " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or Otate, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate...
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The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade: Ancient and Modern; the Forms of ...

William O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...thirty minutes north latitude. Conforming to the cardinal nrincitiles of state eoualitv and being 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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...1S50, 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 State or Territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form...
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