 | 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 slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 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 into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form ami regulate their... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.11 Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of " Squatter Sovereignty," and "sacred right of self-government." "But," said oppoi! Lion members, " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 566 pages
...the principle of nonintervention, established by the compromise measnres of IbW, ''it being the trne intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory or state, nor to exelnde it therefrom, bnt to leave the people thereof perffctiy free to form and regnlate their... | |
 | Kansas - Law - 1861 - 344 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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 394 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, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...scope 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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 374 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, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | John ANDERSON (Fugitive Slave.), Harper Twelvetrees - Enslaved persons - 1863 - 212 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, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 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, nor exclude it^herefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
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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... 
