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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... "
The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to ... - Page 265
by George Lunt - 1866 - 491 pages
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The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a ...

David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 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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Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life. Including a Full View of Its ...

Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson - Abolitionists - 1856 - 402 pages
...of our republic." In the organic act of the territory, section 14, is the following: " 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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American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in ...

Nassau William Senior - 1856 - 220 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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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 594 pages
...Kansas-Nebraska act to maintain and perpetuate, as affirmed in the following provision: " 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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The Congressional Globe

United States. Congress - United States - 1856 - 888 pages
...commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the tnic intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery...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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Speech of Hon. H.S. Geyer, of Missouri, on the Kansas Controversy: Delivered ...

Henry Sheffie Geyer - Kansas - 1856 - 40 pages
...1850, commonly ealled the coinproiniw measures-, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it heh,g the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, hut to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institrrtrons in...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ...

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 176 pages
...Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meanin z 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,...
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Freedom National, Slavery Sectional: Speech of Hon. John J. Perry, of Maine ...

John Jasiel Perry - Campaign literature - 1856 - 16 pages
...declaring the Missouri Compromise a inoperative and void," the same section goes on to say: '" It being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to 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...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ...

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 180 pages
...Territories o* Nebraska and Kansas,' which declares it to Ьь ' the true intent and meaning" of said act ' not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, bat to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in...
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Democratic Speeches on Kansas: Pamphlet Vol.], Volume 1

United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...the people of the Territory. Congress declared it was — "The true intent and meaning of that net not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but lo leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their...
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