 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1866 - 1472 էջ
...institution" of slavery. This will be rendered clear by a simple reference to its language. It was " not to legislate slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, bat to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
 | 1854 - 488 էջ
...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...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. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 էջ
...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...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."... | |
 | Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - 1854 - 234 էջ
...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...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,... | |
 | Truman Smith - 1854 - 28 էջ
...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...State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in their own way,... | |
 | 1854 - 470 էջ
...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...or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institulions in their own way,... | |
 | 1854 - 136 էջ
...1850, commonly called the compromise measures, is herehy declared inoperative and void, it heing the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; hut to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1854 - 16 էջ
...declared " inoperative and void," because it was inconsistent with the present purposes of Congress not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom. But take this apology in whatever form it may be expressed, and test its logic by a simple process. The... | |
 | 1855 - 374 էջ
...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is herehy declared inoperate and void ; it heing the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, hut to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
 | 1855 - 560 էջ
...the good sense of the people ever permitted it to be removed. This much-abused bill does not propose 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... 
