 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...elementary principle of self-government, declaring it to be "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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...called " a stump speech in its belly," namely ; " 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,... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - History - 1856 - 454 pages
...elementary principle of self-government, declaring it to be ' 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,... | |
 | Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson - Abolitionists - 1856 - 400 pages
...of the territory, section 14, is the following : " 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 594 pages
...perpetuate, as affirmed in the following provision: " 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1856 - 874 pages
...were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, to be 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,... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1856 - 220 pages
...aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely: "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 Hall - Political parties - 1856 - 560 pages
...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 their domestic institutions in their own way."... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...called " a stump speech in its belly," namely, " 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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1856 - 114 pages
...aptly called "a stump speech in its belly," namely, " 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,... | |
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... 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, subject... 
