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. Das Staatsarchiv - Page 1061861Full view - About this book
| John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...Source B: Abraham Lincoln from first Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa, Illinois, 21 August 1858 ... I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...institution of slavery in the States where it exists ... I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races ...... | |
| Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...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 .... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 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 where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...delivered, no intention of entering upon war for the manumission of the slave: — "I have," he says, "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...masterstroke of political craft." Nor was Lincoln merely talking for effect when he reiterated that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." The Constitution and constitutional law had erected a firewall between... | |
| Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches, when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And... | |
| Rudolph Alexander (Jr.) - Law - 2005 - 176 pages
...1998). In a speech in 1858, President Lincoln said: I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...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.... | |
| Matthew Evangelista - History - 2005 - 456 pages
...(Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1957). pp. 26-44. 83 In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 50. 84 Hansard's Parliamentary Debates... | |
| Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 360 pages
...containment would eventually lead to extinction. From the start of his first inaugural address, he said, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...right to do so and I have no inclination to do so" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession of southern states and the pressures... | |
| |