 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 476 pages
...Congress. As the Kansas Nebraska Bill stood before Mr. Chase offered his amendment, it read : 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 therein perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 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...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,... | |
 | William Wharton Lester - Land tenure - 1860 - 786 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,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 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 to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | 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...or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic mbtitutions in their own way,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...ask your attention to a portion of the Nebraska bill, which Judge Douglas has quoted : " 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,... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 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 to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 830 pages
...commonly called the compromise measures, 10 hereby declared Inoperative and void; It being tbe tro* 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 ami regulate their domestic Institutions In their own way,... | |
 | Stephen Arnold Douglas - Slavery - 1860 - 58 pages
...the language of repeal were not left in dnnbt. It was declared, in terms, to be 'the true Intent mid meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into...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... 
