 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
 | David P. Currie - Law - 2007 - 341 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...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,... | |
 | Edward Mayes - 2006 - 404 pages
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 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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 therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic... | |
 | Deak Nabers - History - 2006 - 266 pages
...on the subject. The Kansas- Nebraska Act explicitly announced that its "true intent and meaning" 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,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - History - 2006 - 469 pages
...in the matter of slavery. It was declared in the new bill to be the "true intent and meaning" of the Act, "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to regulate their domestic institutions... | |
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