...1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperate 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,...

...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...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,...

...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...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,...

...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...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...provides for. It is most true, air, that the fourteenth section declares that: " It is the true Intent ami meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or stair, nor to exclude it therefrom, but 10 leave the people thereof perfe<tty free to form and regulate...

...fourteenth section declares that: " It is lb« true Intent and meaning of thi> act not to legiilaie slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but 10 leave the people thereof perfe tly free to form and regulate their domestic inititutioni in tin...

...than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring it to be "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,...

...precedent, and which has been aptly called " a stump speech in its belly," namely : " 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,...