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. Annual Register - Page 294edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 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...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...Republic by half-adozen lines of proclamation. The president, in his inaugural address, said : " I have no purpose directly or 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... | |
| 1864 - 492 pages
...reasonable ground for such an apprehension. I quote one of my former speeches, in which I declared that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful right, as I have no inclination^ to do so. Those... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...can prove a 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...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.... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...can prove a horsechestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...can prove a 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...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... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...can prove a 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 of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and 1 have no inclination... | |
| 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... | |
| Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...had fully set in, and its subsequent reiteration by President Lincoln in his inaugural address. ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so,' said Mr. Lincoln, in a speech delivered before his inauguration ; and ' I now reiterate these sentiments,... | |
| James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...inaugural address affords an exposition of the policy of the new government. It contains these words : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar... | |
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