 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...  Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society - Page 181by Kansas State Historical Society - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Holmes - Political parties - 1859 - 410 pages
...commonly called the compromise measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - 1859 - 644 pages
...reading of it is correct, it falls immeasurably * This is the amendment alluded to:—" It being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave ' the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | Nebraska - Session laws - 1859 - 464 pages
...The intent of and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act, ing"aiaTery. cern " n ot to legislate slavery into any territory or state,...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions proviso u to re ' n their own way, subject only to... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1859 - 812 pages
...inoperative and void; it betn£ the true Intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery intn 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, subject only to the constitution... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 638 pages
...bill was the one so often quoted, that it neither designed to " legislate slavery into the territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | 1860 - 782 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...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | 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...therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 642 pages
...1850, (commonly called the Compromise measure) ia hereby declared inoperative and void, it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | William Wharton Lester - Land tenure - 1860 - 786 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...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 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...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regnlate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
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