| Lincoln County (Mo.) - 1888 - 662 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 therefromi but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...— to tie settlement of the question of domestic Slavery in the territories! Congress is neither ' to legislate Slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, bnt to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
| Genealogy - 1881 - 1148 pages
...of 1850, and made inoperative thereby, explained, however, by the following amendment: "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,... | |
| Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...to nonintervention. One clause declared that the "true intent and meaning" of the act as a whole 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,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...of them. A provision of the Nebraska bill, penned by Judge Douglas, is in these words: It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 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 exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic... | |
| Glenn W. Fisher - Business & Economics - 1996 - 266 pages
...repealed that provision and stated: it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislature slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it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,... | |
| Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 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,... | |
| Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning or this act not to legislate every 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,... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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...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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