 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 162by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...to nonintervention. One clause declared that the "true intent and meaning" of the act as a whole 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...a short time afterwards, by an amendment 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...Kansas and Nebraska Bill, I put forth the true intent and meaning of the act in these words: "It is 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... | |
 | Glenn W. Fisher - Business & Economics - 1996 - 266 pages
...repealed that provision and stated: it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislature slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it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,... | |
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