...on the subject. The Kansas- Nebraska Act explicitly announced that its "true intent and meaning" was "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,...

...in the matter of slavery. It was declared in the new bill to be the "true intent and meaning" of the Act, "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to regulate their domestic institutions...

...like ours are involved." [39] In his acceptance letter, Buchanan upheld Pierce's position on Kansas: "Not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude if therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions...

...the admission of Missouri into the Union, . . . 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 perjectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,...

...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,...

...govern, to the settlement of the question of domestic slavery in the Territories. Congress is neither 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,...