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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... "
Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) - Page 131
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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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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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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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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...institution " of Slavery. This will be rendered clear by a simple reference to its language. It \vns u 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 instltu^ tions in their own way.'*...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...Compromise Measures,) is hereby declared Inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meanIng of UiU act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, hut to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form anil repúlate their domestic Institutions in...
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General Laws of the State of Kansas

Kansas - Law - 1861 - 344 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 Crisis Considered

Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 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 Regular Session of the ...

Nebraska - Session laws - 1861 - 278 pages
...true intent and meaning of this act this act concern- . j. i • i A i • * * •*. ^ , ing slavery. 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 ns tore-'11...
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The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave

John ANDERSON (Fugitive Slave.), Harper Twelvetrees - Enslaved persons - 1863 - 212 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,...
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Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War, Volume 1

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 374 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,...
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