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... American History - Page 347by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1909 - 565 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be " 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."... | |
| Andrew White Young - International law - 1858 - 460 pages
...party adopted the sentiment expressed in the Kansas and Xebraska act, which declared 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,... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 868 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be "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."... | |
| Kansas - Law - 1858 - 482 pages
...compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and moaning 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 their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
| Nebraska - Session laws - 1858 - 80 pages
...intent of inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of g[ 1 a 1 v e l r ^ tconcerniue 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 their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1868 - 948 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 76* it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic... | |
| United States - 1858 - 798 pages
...wisely declared it to be " the true intent and meaning of this act (the act organizing the Territory) 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,... | |
| History - 1858 - 1010 pages
...institution ' of slavery. This will be rendered clear by a simple reference to its language. It 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.'... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meanng of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude t therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their lomestic institutions... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1858 - 800 pages
...distinguished author remarks: "The act recognizes the right of the people thereof, while a Territory, to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and to be received into the Union, so soon as they should... | |
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