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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. "
The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion - Page 103
by Edward McPherson - 1865 - 653 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 111

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...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." And in a letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President...
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The Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...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...similar declarations, and had never recanted them.' " The message concluded thus : — "The fate of the Confederacy, under the blessing of Divine Providence,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 181

Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists ; I believe that I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." In Motley's mind the matter is perfectly simple, and he can brook no wavering or weighing of arguments...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...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. I have no pu'pose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...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. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races....
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful 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....
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon ...

Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...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. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races....
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:...
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Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur ..., Volume 1

Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the instifution of slavery in the Slates where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that 1 had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they...
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Das Staatsarchiv, Volume 1

History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...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...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that 1 had made this, and many . similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this,...
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