| Missouri compromise - 1855 - 124 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 form and regulate their... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1855 - 372 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperate 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 their... | |
| 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 Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
| Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1856 - 102 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 Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
| 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 Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
| Nassau William Senior - Slavery - 1856 - 190 pages
...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 Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1856 - 874 pages
...and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, 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 form and regulate their... | |
| 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 slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
| Books - 1856 - 836 pages
...and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, 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 form and regulate their... | |
| John G. Wells - Politicians - 1856 - 156 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 form and regulate their... | |
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