 | 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 slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | 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 slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | 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 slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States." Then opened...right of self-government." "But," said opposition memhers, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...thereof perfectly free to form arid regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States." Then opened...in favor of ' ' squatter sovereignty," and " sacred rights of self-government." " But," said opposition members, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.11 Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor...and "sacred right of self-government." "But," said oppoi! Lion members, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States." Tben opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of '•...and "sacred right of self-government." "But," said oppolUion members, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare tJjftt the people of the Territory... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - Slavery - 1860 - 20 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 therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | 1860 - 782 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 State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 266 pages
...fifiy, 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 therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
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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... 
