| History - 1858 - 1010 pages
...institution ' of slavery. This will be rendered clear by a simple reference to its language. It 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.'... | |
| United States - 1858 - 798 pages
...wisely declared it to be " the true intent and meaning of this act (the act organizing the Territory) 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,... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 868 pages
...institution " of slavery. This will be rendered clear by a simple reference to its language. It 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 Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate shivery 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,... | |
| Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 636 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...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,... | |
| David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...to the principle of non-intervention, established by the compromise measures of 1850, ' 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,... | |
| Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 638 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...slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it thtrefrum, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
| 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, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions proviso u to re... | |
| 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,... | |
| Thomas Lanier Clingman - Slavery - 1860 - 20 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,... | |
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