 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.  Journal of the Senate - Page 301by Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Greg Ward - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...his personal principles should remain distinct from his duty as president, and avowed that '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... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...slaves and their abolitionist friends. As late as the First Inaugural, Lincoln could write: '"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... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...1861, his problems were severe. He addressed the Confederacy in his inaugural address, saying: / 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... | |
 | Jean M. Humez - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 489 pages
...writing a letter to representatives of the Virginia secession convention, reminding them that "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... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...King's cure for all the evils." Lincoln had traveled far from his First Inaugural assurance, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery." Emancipation fitted perfectly his longstanding condemnation of slavery's immorality and his belief... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...Constitution and interfere with the slave states, or that he intended to promote racial equality. "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," Lincoln replied, and "no purpose to introduce political and social... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...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 where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...as "a 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... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...of southern states had seceded but before any shots had been fired, he assured southerners, "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... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...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... | |
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