...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...any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof •perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions...

...called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inopenite and void ; it being the true intent a"hd 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...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...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...any Territory or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institulions in...

...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...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in...

...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....

...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...way, suhject only to the Constitution of the United States : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall he construed to revive or put in force any law...

...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...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...