| 1854 - 488 pages
...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...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,... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 pages
...the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be "the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into...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."... | |
| Truman Smith - Kansas-Nebraska bill - 1854 - 28 pages
...clause. "Is hereby declared inoperative and void." Here the peroration. •'It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into...State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in their own way,... | |
| Missouri - 1854 - 470 pages
...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...or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institulions in their own way,... | |
| Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...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...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,... | |
| 1854 - 136 pages
...called the compromise measures, is herehy declared inoperative and void, it heing the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; hut to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
| William Henry Seward - Kansas-Nebraska bill - 1854 - 16 pages
...declared " inoperative and void," because it was inconsistent with the present purposes of Congress not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom. But take this apology in whatever form it may be expressed, and test its logic by a simple process. The... | |
| United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...the good sense of the people ever permitted it to be removed. This much-abused bill does not propose 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,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 470 pages
...fourteenth section declares that: " It is lb« true Intent and meaning of thi> act not to legiilaie slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but 10 leave the people thereof perfe tly free to form and regulate their domestic inititutioni in tin... | |
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