 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States whore it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...ipeeches of him who now addresses you. I do bat quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of fUvery in the States where it exists. I believe I h»7e no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses yon. I do bnt quote from one of those speeches when I declare that " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of «1атегу in the Stetes where it exists. I believe I hare no lawful right to do so, and I hare... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...of the fact that the President, in his inaugural address of the 4th day of March, 1861, declared, " I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slaverv in the States where it exists ; I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that 1 1 have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.7 I believe 1 have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...number of southern states had seceded but before any shots had been fired, he assured southerners, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." 5 He did not back down, however, from his opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories.... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...pragmatism, or fine parsing of language is also reflected in his first inaugural address, in which he said, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."12 Lincoln thus distinguished his personal moral convictions from the actions he felt he could... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...them, FALSITY OF THE AEOLITIONISTS. 217 and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and / home no inclination to do so" This assurance was again repeated after the commencement of hostilities,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere ivith the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...he argued that it did not mean that black people were legally inferior. "I will say here . . . that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position .... | |
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so. 
