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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. "
Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice: Being a Complete Compilation of His Letters ... - Page 45
by Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 423 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 111

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...very different. In his inaugural message in March 1861, President Lincoln said, " / have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...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
...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...so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them.' "...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 181

Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...indirectly to 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 British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1864 - 492 pages
...elsewhere. We prove this assertion by the President's own words in 1861. He said, " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I have no objection to it being made irrevocable, and that it should never be interfered with." Then...
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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
...horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...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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Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...horsechestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I Lave no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. 1 will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to^lo so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...purpose, directly or 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 1 have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States wrhere it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, arid I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And,...
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