...and the same is hereby, created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Kansas ; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received rnto the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...

...le.«s material to the matters under consideration, the following provisions : When admitted as a State, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall...received Into the Union, with or without Slavery, n.-> their constitution may prescribe At the time of their admission ; That the legislative power and...

...material tu the matters under consideration, the following provisions: . When admitted as a State, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall...received into the Union, with or without Slavery, ач their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission ; That the legislative power and...

...their domestic institutions in their own way." Under it Kansas, " when admited as a State/' was to " be received into the Union with or without Slavery...their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admislion." Did Congress mean by this language that the delegates elected to frame a constitution,...

...New Mexico, with the following gnarantee : " And provided fnrther, that when adnnite,l as a state, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or withont slavery, as their Constitntion may prescribe n' f'te time of their admission." After asserting...

...created into a tMEporary government by thename of the territorr of Nebraska; nnd when admitted as a stall or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Onion with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission Provided,...

...employ the language of the Kansas and Nebraska act, they "shall be received into the Union with «,r without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." This sound principle has happily been recognized, in some form or other, by an almost unanimous vote...

...establish it by the organic law. Yon can't prohibit it by law, and it goes on to say that the States shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitutions shall prescribe Douglas has gone further than that, and said that that construction ie...

...following provisions : When admitted as a State, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall he received into the Union, with or without Slavery, as their constitution may prescrihe at the time of their admission ; That the legislative power and authority of said Territory...

...and the same is hereby created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Kansas, and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory,...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission; Provided, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to inhibit the government of the United...