 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...  Abraham Lincoln's Speeches - Page 74by Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 1066 pages
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 | 1858 - 1010 pages
...contained in the organic Act of Congress of the 30th of May, 1854. Congress declared it to be ' the true intent and meaning of this Act not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way.' Under it Kansas, ' when admitted... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 930 pages
...compro-' 1128 [June 28, 1856. raise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1887 - 766 pages
...to the 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, but to leave the people free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - 466 pages
...for. It is most true, sir, that the fourteenth section declares that: " It i« the true Intent anil meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or Htate, nor to exclude it therefrom, but lo leave the people thereof perfc.tly free to form and regulate... | |
 | 1854 - 488 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be "the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way." Under it Kansas, "when admitted... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1854 - 262 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...therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution... | |
 | Truman Smith - 1854 - 28 pages
...the enacting clause. "Is hereby declared inoperative and void." Here the peroration. •'It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in their own way, •ubjact only to the Constitution... | |
 | 1854 - 144 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...therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution... | |
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