...itself, in the language which follows : — ' 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,...

...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,...

...elementary principle of self-government; declaring it to be "true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to lea_ve the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their...

...majority shall govern — 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...

...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...

...explained, however, by the following amendment: "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,...

...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,...

...Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows: "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 firm and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way,...

...Nebraska Bill, which Judge Douglas has quoted: "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,...

...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,...