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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 Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs, Being an ... - Page 115
by John Elliott Cairnes - 1862 - 171 pages
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The Citizens' Manual of Government and Law: Comprising the Elementary ...

Andrew White Young - International law - 1858 - 460 pages
...party adopted the sentiment expressed in the Kansas and Xebraska act, which declared it to be " 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...
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The Congressional Globe, Part 2

United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be " 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...
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Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress ..., Volume 3

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 820 pages
...in the bill, after declaring the restriction of 1820 null and void, were as follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into tiny Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free...
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Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress ..., Volume 3

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 820 pages
...in the bill, after declaring ti restriction of 1820 null and void, were as follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into > Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfett free to...
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Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and ...

David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...to the principle of non-intervention, established by the compromise measures of 1850, ' 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...
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Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A ...

Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 636 pages
...reading of it is correct, it falls immeasurably * This is the amendment alluded to : — " 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...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...1S50, 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 State or Territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Political parties - 1860 - 268 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 State or Territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their...
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Life of Stephen A. Douglas, United States Senator from Illinois: With His ...

Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 486 pages
...1850, commonly called ihe Compromise measures, is HEUEBY DECLAEED INOPEEATIVE and VOID; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or TEEEITOEY, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people THEEEOF perfectly FEEE TO FOKM AND...
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Decisions of the Interior Department in Public Land Cases, and Land Laws ...

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 slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to...
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