 | United States. Congress. House - 1849 - 796 pages
...Territories, when assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 1 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether...shall abstain from interfering with the question, the peopJe of these Territories •will be left free to adjust it as they may think proper when they apply... | |
 | Thomas Butler King - 1850 - 94 pages
...Territories, when assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 11 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether...slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." The people of California, therefore, acting in conformity with the views thus expressed, and what seemed... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 410 pages
...themselves. From the nature of the climate and productions, in much the larger portion of it, it is certain it could never exist ; and in the remainder, the probabilities...proper when they apply for admission as States into the ynion. No enactment of Congress could restrain the people of any of the sovereign States of the Union,... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1854 - 446 pages
...acquired Territories, when assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the solo and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether...the people of these Territories will be left free to ailju?t it as they may think proper when they apply for admission as States into the Union. No enactment... | |
 | 1856 - 642 pages
...with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. The Nebraska-Kansas act does no more than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government,... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - 1856 - 454 pages
...with them, has simply declared that the people of a territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. " The Nebraska-Kansas act does no more than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government,... | |
 | 1856 - 96 pages
...with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves, whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. The Nebraska-Kansas act does no more than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - 1858 - 246 pages
...with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." Endorses the Nebraska- Kansas act : icir domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the... | |
 | 1860 - 268 pages
...accordance with them has simply declared tlmt the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether Slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." This exposition of the history of these measures shows conclusively that the authors of the Compromise... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1860 - 280 pages
...the question, and has asserted that the people of a Territory, like those of a State? shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. I answer specifically if you want a further answer, and say that while under the decision of the Supreme... | |
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This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and in accordance with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist... 
