 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 96 pages
...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...only to the Constitution of the United States." This principle will surely not be controverted by any individual of any party professing devotion to popular... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | Books - 1856 - 836 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...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,... | |
 | 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...State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulnte their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | 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...or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfeetlv free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | John G. Wells - Politicians - 1856 - 156 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1856 - 102 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...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,... | |
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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... 
