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...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska Bill itself, in the language which follows : ' It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...State, nor exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject...

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

...argument was incorporated into the 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 form and regulate their...

...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, m 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...

...was incorporated into the 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 form and regulate their...

...thereof j>erfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States " Then opened...Sovereignty," and " sacred right of self-government." "Bnt," said opposition members, ** let us amend the bill KO as to expressly declare that the people...

...favorite theory had been recognized in May, 1854, by the Kansas and Nebraska Act, declaring it to be " 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 free to form and regulate their domestic institutions...

...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 slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their...

...argument was incorporated into the 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 form and regulate their...