 I believe, it was provided that it must be considered " the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their...  Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln - Page 221by Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 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, ndr to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 616 pages
...rather had his enemies on the hip when he quoted the language of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, " it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to regulate their domestic... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 pages
...rather had his enemies on the hip when he quoted the language of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, " it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to regulate their domestic... | |
 | John N. Holloway - Abolitionists - 1868 - 608 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 slavery into any Territory or States, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 740 pages
...fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, ¡я hereby declared inoperative and void ; It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or Mate, nor to exclude It the/efrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... | |
 | John N. Holloway - Abolitionists - 1868 - 602 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 slavery into any Territorv or States, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to... | |
 | Jacob William Schuckers - Slavery - 1874 - 714 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, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Jacob William Schuckers - History - 1874 - 736 pages
...called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true iiftent 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... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 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 stale, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...is the Douglas amendment, which really formed the basis of the bill for admission : ki It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any state or territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to... | |
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