 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...  Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 - Page 104by Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Kansas - 1858 - 246 pages
...fommonty oaUed Oie compromise meamres, is HEREBY DECLARED INOPERATIVE and VOID ; it being the trve intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or TERRITORY, nor to exclude it Oierefrom, but to leave the people THEREOF perfectly FRFE TO... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 636 pages
...reading of it is correct, it falls immeasurably * This is the amendment alluded to : — " 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,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...to the principle of non-intervention, established by the compromise measures of 1850, ' 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,... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 638 pages
...reading of it is correct, it falls immeasurably * This is the amendment alluded to:—" It being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it thtrefrum, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
 | Nebraska - Session laws - 1859 - 464 pages
...The intent of and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act, ing"aiaTery. cern " n ot 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 u to re... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1859 - 812 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 slavery into any territory or suite, nor to* exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 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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