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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... "
Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]. - Page 19
by United States. Department of the Interior - 1857
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...institution " of Slavery. This will be rendered clear by a simple reference to its language. It \vns u 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 instltu^ tions in their own way.'*...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...Compromise Measures,) is hereby declared Inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meanIng of UiU 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 anil repúlate their domestic Institutions in...
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General Laws of the State of Kansas

Kansas - Law - 1861 - 344 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,...
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The American Crisis Considered

Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 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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Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials Passed at the Regular Session of the ...

Nebraska - Session laws - 1861 - 278 pages
...true intent and meaning of this act this act concern- . j. i • i A i • * * •*. ^ , ing slavery. 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 ns tore-'11...
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The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave

John ANDERSON (Fugitive Slave.), Harper Twelvetrees - Enslaved persons - 1863 - 212 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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The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the ...

William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...scope and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared in terms to be " 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 own institutions in their own way, subject...
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The First Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 394 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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Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War, Volume 1

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 374 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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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 1

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 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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