| Missouri compromise - 1855 - 124 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... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1855 - 372 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperate 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... | |
| United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring 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... | |
| Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1856 - 114 pages
...without precedent, and which has been aptly called "a stump speech in its belly," namely, " 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... | |
| Rushmore G. Horton - History - 1856 - 454 pages
...than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1856 - 874 pages
...and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, 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... | |
| Darius Lyman - Slavery - 1856 - 346 pages
...and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, 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... | |
| Nassau William Senior - Slavery - 1856 - 190 pages
...precedent, and which has been aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely : " 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... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures, ia 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 regulnte their... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...fifty, commonly called the Com* promise 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 perfeetlv free to form and regulate their... | |
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