 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 830 pages
...commonly called the compromise measures, 10 hereby declared Inoperative and void; It being tbe tro* intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery...or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form ami regulate their domestic Institutions In their own way,... | |
 | Stephen Arnold Douglas - Slavery - 1860 - 58 pages
...the language of repeal were not left in dnnbt. It was declared, in terms, to be 'the true Intent mid 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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 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...Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it tJierefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic, institutions... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...Compromise Measures,' Is hereby declared inoperative and void — it being the true intent and meaning o/ 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 régulait their domestic in*titutifniJi in their oton... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...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 to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - Campaign literature - 1860 - 160 pages
...VOTES DOWN " POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY." The true intent and meaning of the Nebraska bill was declared to be "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in iheir own way, subject... | |
 | Nebraska - Law - 1860 - 248 pages
...inoperative The intent of and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act Sngssiavery.cem~ 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 Proviso as to re-... | |
 | Samuel M. Wolfe - Slavery - 1860 - 286 pages
...their own municipal institutions. The bill declared on its face 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,... | |
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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... 
