...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...

...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 exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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-...

...legislate slavery into any Territory or State, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. In that bill the pledge was distinctly made that the...

...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...

...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is HEKEBY DECLARED INOPERATIVE and VOID ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or TERRITORY, nor to exclude it Ihertfrom, but to leave the people THEREOF perfectly FREE TO...

...short time afterward, by an amendment, I believe, it was provided that it must be considered " 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...