 | Lincoln County (Mo.) - 1888 - 662 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 therefromi but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...— to tie settlement of the question of domestic Slavery in the territories! Congress is neither ' to legislate Slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, bnt to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
 | Genealogy - 1881 - 1148 pages
...of 1850, and made inoperative thereby, explained, however, by the following amendment: "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,... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...to nonintervention. One clause declared that the "true intent and meaning" of the act as a whole 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...ask your attention to a portion of the Nebraska Bill, which Judge Douglas has quoted: "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,... | |
 | Glenn W. Fisher - Business & Economics - 1996 - 266 pages
...repealed that provision and stated: it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislature slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it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,... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 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,... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...ask your attention to a portion of the Nebraska bill, which Judge Douglas has quoted ; "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,... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty ... 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 own domestic institutions in their own... | |
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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... 
