...territory lying north of 36° 30', and incorporating it in the Territory of New Mexico, with the guarantee that, "when admitted as a state, the said Territory,...slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of admission." Hence all the territory, to which it is now proposed to apply the Missouri restriction...

...embrace, among other things less material to the matters under consideration, the following provisions: When admitted as a State, the said Territory, or any...Slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission ; That the legislative power and authority of said Territory shall bo vested...

...Constitution, the KansasNebraska act declared, in the precise language of th« Compromise Mensures of 1850, that, " when admitted as a State, the said Territory,...into the Union, with or without Slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe at the time of tlieir admission." r J He then refers to the formation of...

...Constitution, the KansasNebraska act declared, In the precise language of the Compromise Mensures of 1S50, that, " when admitted as a State, the said Territory,...into the Union, with or without Slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe at the time of their admission." He then refers to the formation of the...

...act declared, in the precise language of the Compromise Measures of 1850, that, " when admitted аз a State, the said Territory, or any portion of the...into the Union, with or without Slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe at the time of their admission." He then refers to the formation of the...

...as a domestic institution, shall be maintained or prohibited within their jurisdiction ; and " they shall be received into the Union with or without Slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." 7. Resolved, That the provision of the Constitution for the rendition of...

...United States from dividing said territory into two or more territories, in such manner and at such times as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said territory to any other Htate or territory of the United States : Provided, further, That nothing...

...bill for the organization of the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. It provided as follows :— " When admitted as a State, the said territory, or any...Slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Thus abrogating the venerable and respected Missouri Compromise Act, of 1820,...

...attached to other Stales or Territories when and as Congress may deem proper. When admitted as a Slate, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall...received into the Union, with or without slavery, as its constitution may prescribe at the time of its admission. Every free white male inhabitant, above...

...whether it recognized slavery or not ; and, in the words of the Act, ' when admitted as a State or States the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall...into the Union, with or without slavery, as their institutions may prescribe at the time of their admission.' But the decision in the Dred Scott case...