 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate..." squatter sovereignty," and '•' sacred right of self-governjnent." friendg of the measure; and down they voted the amendment. While the Nebraska Bill... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska Bill itself, in the language which follows : ' It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...State, nor exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...argument was incorporated into the 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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, m 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... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...was incorporated into the 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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...thereof j>erfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States " Then opened...Sovereignty," and " sacred right of self-government." "Bnt," said opposition members, ** let us amend the bill KO as to expressly declare that the people... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 pages
...favorite theory had been recognized in May, 1854, by the Kansas and Nebraska Act, 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 free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
 | James Buchanan - United States - 1866 - 316 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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...argument was incorporated into the 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... | |
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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... 
