 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
 | Tony R. Mullis - History - 2004 - 298 pages
...compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of the 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 domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...and Territories" established in the Compromise of 1850. The "true intent and meaning" of the bill 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,... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Economics - 2004 - 472 pages
...should be determined. The principle is thus described in the words of the act : — " 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... | |
 | Michael G. Chiorazzi, Marguerite Most - History - 2005 - 706 pages
...sovereignty, the act notes that the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...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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